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Fixation

Fixation Meaning & Definition
Fixation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fixation?

[n] (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
[n] the activity of fastening something firmly in position
[n] an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
[n] an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fixation: arrested development | fixing | infantile fixation | obsession | regression

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fixation: anchorage | arrest | arrestation | arrested development | arrestment | blockage | blocking | check | clogging | closing up | closure | colonization | complex | compulsion | confirmation | constriction | cramp | craze | deep-rootedness | deep-seatedness | delay | detainment | detention | embedment | entrenchment | establishment | fascination | father fixation | fetish | fixed idea | fixedness | fixity | fixture | foot-dragging | foundation | Freudian fixation | hampering | hang-up | hindering | hindrance | holdback | holdup | hypercathexis | idee fixe | immobility | impediment | implantation | inaction | inactivity | inauguration | infantile fixation | infatuation | infixion | inhibition | initiation | installation | installment | interference | interruption | investiture | inveteracy | irresistible impulse | kick | let | libido fixation | lodgment | mania | monomania | mooring | morbid drive | mother fixation | motionlessness | negativism | nuisance value | obsession | obsessive compulsion | obstruction | obstructionism | occlusion | opposition | parent fixation | peopling | plantation | population | possession | pregenital fixation | preoccupation | prepossession | regression | repression | resistance | restraint | restriction | retardation | retardment | retreat to immaturity | ruling passion | setback | settlement | settling | squeeze | stabilization | stranglehold | stricture | suppression | thing | tic

See Also | abnormal condition | abnormalcy | abnormality | attachment | fastening | immobilisation | immobilization | preoccupation | preservation | saving

Fixation In Webster's Dictionary

\Fix*a"tion\ (f[i^]ks*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. fixation.] 1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. --Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. --Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. --Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. --Watts. 2. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements. 3. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. --Glanvill. 4. A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. --Bacon.

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