fixation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fix=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

fixation, n. [Cf. F. fixation.].

•  The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.  [1913 Webster]

  "An unalterable fixation of resolution."  [1913 Webster]

  "To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation."  [1913 Webster]

  "Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint."  [1913 Webster]

  "A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.  Glanvill.  [1913 Webster]
•  A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fixation, n.
1 the act or an instance of being fixated.
2 an obsession, concentration on a single idea.
3 fixing or being fixed.
4 the process of rendering solid; coagulation.
5 the process of assimilating a gas to form a solid compound.

Etymology

ME f. med.L fixatio f. fixare: see FIX

THESAURUS

fixation

Freudian fixation, anchorage, arrest, arrestation, arrested development, arrestment, blockage, blocking, check, clogging, closing up, closure, colonization, complex, compulsion, confirmation, constriction, cramp, craze, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, delay, detainment, detention, embedment, entrenchment, establishment, fascination, father fixation, fetish, fixed idea, fixedness, fixity, fixture, foot-dragging, foundation, hampering, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, hypercathexis, idee fixe, immobility, impediment, implantation, inaction, inactivity, inauguration, infantile fixation, infatuation, infixion, inhibition, initiation, installation, installment, interference, interruption, investiture, inveteracy, irresistible impulse, kick, let, libido fixation, lodgment, mania, monomania, mooring, morbid drive, mother fixation, motionlessness, negativism, nuisance value, obsession, obsessive compulsion, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, parent fixation, peopling, plantation, population, possession, pregenital fixation, preoccupation, prepossession, regression, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, retreat to immaturity, ruling passion, setback, settlement, settling, squeeze, stabilization, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, thing, tic

ROGET THESAURUS

fixation

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.