| When one is faced with a new problem, functional fixedness blocks one's ability to use old tools in novel ways. |
| Yet, it is precisely because of its fixedness in the landscape that, to those who see the monument, it becomes invisibly part of the landscape. |
| Functional fixedness is the inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions. |
| Perceptions that there are implicit guarantees about the fixedness of exchange rates and bailouts compound this process. |
| The cat looked at him with great round eyes that were diabolical in their fixedness. |
| Although idiomaticity has been thoroughly explored, it is usually the fixedness aspect that has been emphasised. |
