2. Adjective. (psychology) attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner ¹
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Definition of Fixated
1. fixate [v] - See also: fixate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixated
Literary usage of Fixated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"(2) Seven times as many cases of fixated scoliosis exist at the beginning of
school life than develop during these years; during school years the fixated ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Eyes then fixated handle and this word came to consciousness with feeling of ...
fixated the drum-stick and said ' stick' with feeling of satisfaction that ..."
3. Studies in Philosophy and Psychology by Charles Edward Garman, James Hayden Tufts, Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, Edmund Burke Delabarre, Arthur Henry Pierce, Frank Chapman Sharp (1906)
"In case of horizontal lines, the end that is fixated usually seems to be the ...
When the middle portion is fixated, the results may be the same as with ..."
4. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"In other words, the fixated unconscious passion can never become conscious,
because it is fixated, and, as it can never become conscious, it cannot become ..."
5. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1897)
"the two points seem to the equally distant — a phenomenon which can appear only
when one of the points is rigidly fixated. Under the latter condition still ..."
6. Analytical Psychology: A Practical Manual for Colleges and Normal Schools by Lightner Witmer (1902)
"The experiment with the rod and the book shows that when one part of an object
is fixated, the parts that are nearer and farther away are seen double. ..."
7. An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: A Text-book and by Hubert Gruender (1920)
"Then the object fixated with the left eye, will also tend to "attract" their ...
In terms of our diagram, we may ignore X, fixated with the left eye, ..."
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