Both Uses
fixate
in
Brave New World
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(fixate as in: fixated on football) overly focused
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Fixation can reference chemical bonding (especially of Nitrogen in the soil), or an arrested stage of development theorized by Freud (as in oral fixation), or (especially in medicine) the activity of fastening something firmly in position.