Both Uses of
fixation
in
Brave New World
- So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines and the fixation of nitrogen–positively a crime against society.†
p. 52..6 *
- Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle–an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations.†
p. 222..9
Definition:
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(fixation as in: fixated on football) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone