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fixated

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Psychoanalysis. arrested in emotional or sexual development:
To me, he still seems stuck at the stage of an orally fixated toddler.
fastened or held in one place:
An unstable dislocation, often due to loose ligaments, is more problematic than the fixated type of joint dislocation.
aimed or directed in one place:
He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish.
focused on by the eyes:
Given a constant distance between the two eyes, the location of the fixated point, where the lines of sight of the two eyes meet, can be computed.

Origin of fixated¹

While the world fixated on Ukraine and Syria, a near-genocide ripped through central Africa, to little international fanfare.

All three outlets remained fixated on surgery, and seemed to only gloss over questions of identity.

The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

In Fault, Hazel is very fixated on meeting her idol, author Peter van Houten.

The Italian press fixated on the details of how the American president travels.

A young man has been unusually long and intensely fixated upon his mother in the sense of the Oedipus complex.

The eye was first fixated on the light-spot, and then moved horizontally away toward either the right or the left.

The phenomenon appeared only when the illuminated spot had been fixated for an appreciable period of time.

Breuer's first hysterical patient was fixated in the same manner upon the time when she nursed her very sick father.

The digits must be so firmly fixated in memory that they can be held there long enough to be told off, one by one, backwards.

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