Plural of fixity; multiple instances of the state of being fixed, unchanging, or permanent.
From fixity (noun) plus -ies plural inflection. Fixity comes from Latin 'fixus' plus '-ity' (state of being).
Philosophers use 'fixities' to describe things they think are unchangeable—like Plato's Forms—but science keeps showing that what we thought were fixities are actually fluid, which is the ongoing revolution in thinking.
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