noun

fixation

fihks-AY-shuhn

noun

An intense, often unhealthy preoccupation with a particular person, idea, or thing.

"She developed a fixation with keeping the house spotless."

"His fixation on the score cost him his focus on the game itself."

The act of fixing or holding something securely in place, or making it permanently stable.

"The surgeon used a metal plate for fixation of the fractured bone."

How to Use Fixation

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishAn obsessive focus on something, or (more technically) the act of holding something firmly and permanently in place.

Common pairings

an unhealthy fixation oral fixation

fixations plural

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She developed a _____ with keeping the house spotless.

From French fixation, ultimately from Latin figere, "to fasten" — the same root as "fix" and "fixture."

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