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"Fixate" Definition

verb-transitive

Psychology In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
Psychology To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: "TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything” ( Jay Walljasper).
To make fixed, stable, or stationary.

verb-intransitive

Psychology To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
Psychology To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
To focus the eyes or attention.

verb

To make fixed, stationary, or unchanging.
To focus one's gaze on.
To direct (the libido) toward an infantile form of gratification.
To focus or concentrate one's gaze or attention intently or obsessively.
To undergo arrestment at a stage of development.

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