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- Dictionaryfix·ate/ˈfikˌsāt/
verb
- 1. cause (someone) to acquire an obsessive attachment to someone or something: "she has for some time been fixated on photography"
- 2. direct one's eyes toward: technical "subjects fixated a central point"
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1. : to focus or concentrate one's gaze or attention intently or obsessively. 2. : to undergo arrestment at a stage of development. Examples of fixate in a Sentence.
to think about something too much and find it difficult to stop: fixate on High achievers sometimes fixate on their own flaws. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom. be hung up on something idiom. be wrapped up in something/someone idiom. brain. devour. fetishize.
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.
If you fixate on something, you become overly focused on it or attached to it. Don't fixate on your grades — try to enjoy the process of learning! While the original 19th century meaning of fixate was "make stable," it soon came to mean "gaze upon."
verb (used without object) , fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing. to obsessively concentrate one's attention (usually followed by on ): Take something away from someone completely and they may fixate on it. Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development:
to think about something too much and find it difficult to stop: fixate on High achievers sometimes fixate on their own flaws. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorb. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom. be hung up on something idiom.
1. to become or cause to become fixed. 2. to direct the eye or eyes at a point in space so that the image of the point falls on the centre (fovea) of the eye or eyes. 3. (Psychology) psychol to engage in fixation.
1. to become or cause to become fixed. 2. to direct the eye or eyes at a point in space so that the image of the point falls on the centre ( fovea) of the eye or eyes. 3. psychology. to engage in fixation. 4. (tr; usually passive) informal. to obsess or preoccupy. Collins English Dictionary.
Fixate definition: To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively.
the state of being unable to stop thinking about something or someone, or an unnaturally strong interest in something or someone: Liz has a fixation with/on food. a mother fixation. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom. be hung up on something idiom.
