Fixation

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The act or process of fixing or fixating. noun

An obsessive preoccupation. noun

A strong attachment to a person or thing, manifested in an immature or pathological way. noun

Attachment: adhesion: as, various parasites have organs for fixation. noun

In psychological and physiological optics, the act or process of directing the eyes upon some object, and of maintaining this direction during the time required for observation; the bringing of a retinal image into and holding it upon the area of direct vision. noun

The act of fixing. noun

The state of being fixed; a fixed, firm, or stable condition; stability; firmness; steadiness. noun

Fixed or certain position or location. noun

Specifically The act or process by which a fluid or a gas becomes or is rendered firm or stable in consistency, and evaporation or volatilization prevented, or by which colors are rendered permanent or lasting; specifically, in chem., that process by which a gaseous body becomes fixed or solid on uniting with a solid body. noun

Firmness or stableness of consistency; that firm state of a body in which it resists evaporation or volatilization by heat: as, the fixation of gold or other metals. noun

The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. noun

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements. noun

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. noun

A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. noun

The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed or fixated. noun

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements. noun

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. noun

In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat. noun

A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing. noun

Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law. noun

The act of fixing.

The state of being fixed or fixated.

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.

A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing.

Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.

The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.

Mentally:when a person is obsessed with another person, inatimate object,or animal visually: staring at or gazing at something or in a constant direction for a long time Urban Dictionary

When you are obsessed with somebody or you are concentrating like crazy on them. This is not always good, though, as you might not be able to be with the person, or they might not like you in the same way. Urban Dictionary

Like an oral fixation, but for gore. An obsession for gory movies. Urban Dictionary

A term used for someone who constantly sucks, chews, bites, or knaws on object either do to practice for there nightly routine or to think. Urban Dictionary

1) When you are watching something so intensely that you comletely ignore all hazards or obstacles around you and collide with one of them 2) When you are watching something you are trying to avoid so intensely that you forget that you are trying to avoid it, you accidentaly collide with it. Happens a lot in video games. Urban Dictionary

A psychological condition first theorized by Sigmond Freud resulting when a person needs perpetual simulation with their mouth. This is manifested from the oral stage of development, from birth-18 months, when breastfeeding occurs. If a baby is weened either too early or too late in development, it's thought he will develop an oral fixation. This may contribute to behaviors involving the mouth such as smoking, alcholism, over-eating, talking too much, or having an abrassive or "biting" personality. Urban Dictionary

Being obsessed with snorting powdered drugs up your (or my) nose, or snorting anything up your nose to get high Urban Dictionary

Originally a concept in Freudian psychoanalysis which has later spread into popular use, probably because of its rude connotations. An anal-fixated person is someone who is excessively tidy and obsessed with neatness, appearance and order. Such people are bureaucratic-minded, petty-minded jobsworths who make other people's lives a misery by creating unnecessary hurdles, and/or who lead a sad life due to their incapacity to set aside their obsession with regularity. It is often used as an insult in cases where people are overly strict or rigid about something. The origin is that Freud, in his early work, said that young children go through three stages, oral, anal and phallic, before the age of 5, and that successfully traversing each stage is crucial to later psychological wellbeing. (The phallic stage produces the Oedipus Complex or in girls, the Electra Complex and penis envy). If someone fails to traverse a stage, usually because of excessively rigid parenting (though also sometimes through the opposite), they become "fixated" and have unresolved libidinal (i.e. psycho-sexual) issues which overshadow their later lives. The anal stage occurs around the time a young child is potty-trained, and can include experiencing pleasure from either retaining or releasing shit. The characteristics usually called 'anal-fixated' are those of the anal-retentive, who gained disproportionate enjoyment from holding shit in, possibly because of too-rigid potty training. (An anal-fixated person can also strictly speaking be anal-expulsive, which leads to characteristics such as messiness etc., but this has not passed over into popular use). It expresses itself in later life in neuroses centred on rigidity and regularity. In popular usage, usually abbreviated to "anal". Urban Dictionary

The desire or absolute need to catch snowflakes on one's tongue whenever it snows. Urban Dictionary

When you have an unconditional affection towards the part of the human body known as hands Urban Dictionary

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Adjectives that are often used to describe fixation:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective fixation:
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