The meaning of Fixation

Fixation – definition

noun
An obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something.
Usage examples:
Our fixation with diet and fitness
Synonims:
Obsession with Preoccupation with Mania for Monomania Fetish Addiction Complex Neurosis Compulsion Idée fixe Hang-up Thing Yen Rage Bug Craze Fad Bee in one's bonnet
noun
The action or process of fixing or being fixed.
Usage examples:
Sand-dune fixation
noun
The action of concentrating the eyes directly on something.
Usage examples:
During the period of total blindness there was a complete absence of visual fixation

noun
The state of being unable to stop thinking about something or someone, or an unnaturally strong interest in something or someone
Usage examples:
Liz has a fixation with food., a mother fixation

Fixation translation into English

Fixation: translate from English into Chinese

固定, 定影, 固着, 固定术

Fixation: translate from English into Dutch

Fixatie, Bevestiging, Vastlegging, Vastzetting, Aanhechting, Vastheid, Stolling

Fixation: translate from English into French

Fixation, Obsession, Détermination

Fixation: translate from English into German

Fixierung

Fixation: translate from English into Hindi

निर्धारण, नियतन, स्थिरीकरण, स्थिरता

Fixation: translate from English into Italian

Fissazione

Fixation: translate from English into Korean

정착, 고착, 응시, 응고, 정치

Fixation: translate from English into Russian

Фиксация, Закрепление, Навязчивая идея, Тяготение, Пристрастие, Сгущение

Fixation: translate from English into Spanish

Fijación

Word origin

late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form): from medieval Latin fixatio(n- ), from fixare

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Fixation – similar words

fixates

verb
Cause (someone) to develop an obsessive attachment to someone or something.
Usage examples:
He became fixated on the idea of a third world war

verb
To think about something too much and find it difficult to stop
Usage examples:
Fixate on high achievers sometimes fixate on their own flaws.

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fixated

verb
Cause (someone) to develop an obsessive attachment to someone or something.
Usage examples:
He became fixated on the idea of a third world war

adjective
Thinking hard about something all the time
Usage examples:
I am fixated on making tomorrow better., jen has a fixation on food.

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fixate

verb
Cause (someone) to develop an obsessive attachment to someone or something.
Usage examples:
He became fixated on the idea of a third world war

verb
To think about something too much and find it difficult to stop
Usage examples:
Fixate on high achievers sometimes fixate on their own flaws.

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Fixation synonims

addiction

əˈdɪk.ʃən

noun
The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity.
Usage examples:
He committed the offence to finance his drug addiction

noun
The need or strong desire to do or to have something, or a very strong liking for something
Usage examples:
[ u ] his addiction began with prescription drugs., [ c ] i have an addiction to mystery stories., …

An inability to stop doing or using something, especially something harmful
Usage examples:
Drug addiction, his addiction to alcohol, for people with ocd, cleaning can become an addiction.

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bug

bʌɡ

noun
A harmful microorganism, typically a bacterium.
Usage examples:
Their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs

verb
Conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or device) in order to listen to or record someone's conversations secretly.
Usage examples:
Their offices, homes, and telephones were bugged

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complex

adjective
Consisting of many different and connected parts.
Usage examples:
A complex network of water channels

noun
A group or system of different things that are linked in a close or complicated way; a network.
Usage examples:
A complex of mountain roads

verb
Make (an atom or compound) form a complex with another.
Usage examples:
The dna was complexed with the nuclear extract

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compulsion

noun
The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.
Usage examples:
The payment was made under compulsion

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craze

noun
An enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity.
Usage examples:
The new craze for step aerobics

verb
Make (someone) insane or wildly out of control.
Usage examples:
Crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels

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fad

noun
An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze.
Usage examples:
Some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad

abbreviation
Flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.

noun
A style or activity that suddenly becomes popular but which usually does not stay popular for very long
Usage examples:
He thought computers would be just a fad.

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fetish

noun
A form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc.
Usage examples:
A man with a fetish for surgical masks

noun
An activity or object that someone is interested in to an extreme degree and that the person gives an unreasonable amount of time or thought to
Usage examples:
He had a fetish about clothes.

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monomania

noun
Exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.
Usage examples:
She has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania

noun
A condition in which someone is extremely interested in one thing, in a way that is not normal

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neurosis

noun
A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.
Usage examples:
Freud's two-stage account of neurosis

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rage

reɪdʒ

noun
Violent uncontrollable anger.
Usage examples:
Her face was distorted with rage

verb
Feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.
Usage examples:
He raged at the futility of it all

noun
Extreme or violent anger, or a period of feeling such anger
Usage examples:
[ c ] i had never seen him in such a rage before., he raged at me for sending the letter out before…

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thing

noun
An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.
Usage examples:
Look at that metal rail thing over there

A separate and self-contained entity

noun
A device, product, or part of nature that is not named
Usage examples:
There’s a new thing that seals plastic bags., there are some nice things in the stores on sale righ…

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yen

noun
The basic monetary unit of japan.
Usage examples:
Whether it be for the lure of dollars or yen, or the start of a coaching career back in france rema…

verb
Feel a longing or yearning.
Usage examples:
It's no use yenning for the old simplicities

All meanings and translations of Yen

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