fixity

Plural: fixities

Noun

• The state of being stable, firm, or permanently fixed.
• the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
• the quality of being incapable of mutation
  • "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
• The state or condition of being fixed.
• Something fixed.
• The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).

Examples

• Achieving FIXITY in a Words With Friends rack often means patiently waiting for the perfect vowel.
• One may use a fixity declaration in Haskell to describe an operator's precedence and direction of associativity.

Synonyms

fastness, fixedness, fixture, immutability, immutableness, secureness

Antonyms

looseness, mutability, mutableness

Related Words

fixidity