fixation
noun
[ fɪkˈseɪʃ(ə)n ]
• an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something.
• "our fixation with diet and fitness"
Similar:
obsession with,
preoccupation with,
mania for,
monomania,
fetish,
addiction,
complex,
neurosis,
compulsion,
idée fixe,
hang-up,
thing,
yen,
rage,
bug,
craze,
fad,
bee in one's bonnet,
• the action or process of fixing or being fixed.
• "sand-dune fixation"
• the action of concentrating the eyes directly on something.
• "during the period of total blindness there was a complete absence of visual fixation"
Origin:
late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form): from medieval Latin fixatio(n- ), from fixare (see fix).
