Both Uses
fixate
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- The idea grew in Will Hodge's mind—or fixation, maybe—as he wound his way up the Creek Road toward Batavia.†
Chpt 3 *
- An oral fixation, possibly?†
Chpt 14
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.