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fix·ate
(fĭk′sāt′)v. fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing, fix·ates
v.tr.
1.
a. To cause (a person or the eyes) to look at or pay attention to something steadily: "My eyes were fixated on his playful, deep-set brown eyes" (Bernard Lown).
b. To focus one's eyes or attention on: "When you fixate the closer of the two fingers, the one further away is seen double" (Robert F. Schmidt and Gerhard Thews).
2. 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).
3. Psychology
a. To cause to become emotionally attached in an immature or pathological manner.
b. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
v.intr.
1. To focus the eyes or attention.
2. Psychology
a. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
b. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
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fixated
adjective obsessed, fascinated, preoccupied, captivated, attached, devoted, absorbed, caught up in, single-minded, smitten, taken up with, besotted, wrapped up in, engrossed, spellbound, infatuated, mesmerized, hypnotized, hung up on (slang), monomaniacal, prepossessed As a child, he was fixated with video nasties.
detached, indifferent, open-minded, unconcerned, uninterested, dispassionate, uncommitted, uninvolved, unprepossessed
detached, indifferent, open-minded, unconcerned, uninterested, dispassionate, uncommitted, uninvolved, unprepossessed
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fixated
[fɪkˈseɪtɪd] ADJ to be fixated on sth/sb → estar obsesionado con algo/algn, tener una fijación con algo/algnto become or get fixated on or with sth/sb → obsesionarse con algo/algn
mother-fixated → con fijación materna or en la madre
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fixated
adj → fixiert (→ on auf +acc)
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