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Definition of Fixate
1. Verb. Attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way. "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40"
2. Verb. Pay attention to exclusively and obsessively. "The media are fixating on Princess Diana's death"
3. Verb. Make fixed, stable or stationary. "Let's fix the picture to the frame"
4. Verb. Become fixed (on). "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"
Definition of Fixate
1. Verb. To make something fixed and stable; to fix. ¹
2. Verb. To stare fixedly at something. ¹
3. Verb. To attend to something to the exclusion of all others. ¹
4. Verb. (psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fixate
1. to make stable or stationary [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixate
Literary usage of Fixate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of Child Study: Including Class Outlines, Brief Discussions by George Washington Andrew Luckey (1917)
"To fixate an object the child must have control over some of the muscles of the
head and eyes. Evidently fixation does not occur before the tenth day. ..."
2. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"The tendency to fixate the lower end of an oblique line drawn in ... fixate steadily
and continuously an imaginary point lying midway between ab and gh. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"It will be remembered that the original instructions read "fixate the center of
the disc." These instructions in a sense demanded the impossible, ..."
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