Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIX'ED-NESS, n.

1. A state of being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfastness; as, a fixedness in religion or politics; fixedness of opinion on any subject.
2. The state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as, the fixedness of gold.
3. Firm coherence of parts; solidity. Bentley.