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Definition
an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- 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
There are no more uses of "fixation" in Brave New World.
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