fixation

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  1. noun The act or process of fixing or fixating.
  2. noun An obsessive preoccupation.
  3. noun Psychology A strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life.

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  • He was like a madman with a single fixation--a fixation about to be accomplished Pterlodin did not seem to consider himself treacherous in leading an attack against his own tribe. —  069 - The Green Death
  • If the fixation is so deep, he'll have to come back. —  The Ship Who Sang
  • If you've been Jonesing for something to replace your Buffy the Vampire Slayer fixation, then you should be tuning in to Veronica Mars on Tuesday nights. —  FSF,October2007
  • Anyway, it gave the elder Savage a peculiar fixation--that he must raise a son who would be a modernized Sir Galahad, going into the far corners of the earth to right wrongs and aid the oppressed. —  143 - Violent Night
  • Although, if music is to be afforded copyright protection, it must satisfy the requirement of fixation which is defined by s. 3 (2) of Act which states that ‘copyright does not subsist in a †¦ musical work unless and until it is recorded, in writing or otherwise†™. —  Bytestart
 

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  1. from Middle English fixation, fixacioun, from Old French fixation, French fixation = Spanish fijacion = Portuguese fixação = Italian fissazione, from Middle Latin *fixatio(n-), from fixare, past participle fixatus: see fix, v.
 

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/fɪkˈseɪʃən/
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