Both Uses of
fixation
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- But Annie was still fixated on the other matter.†
Chpt 2 *
- This woman's feelings, obsessed though they might have been, had never evolved into Annie's paranoid fixation, but Paul understood now that the wellspring had been the same.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(fixation as in: fixated on football) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, 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. To see those or other specialized meanings, check the Wikipedia or Dictionary with Pronunciation links.