Both Uses
fixate
in
The Hunger Games
(Edited)
- Several times I've looked up to find one fixated on me.
p. 97.3 *fixated = intensely focused
- A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table.
p. 101.9fixated = preoccupied
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.