Defenition of the word fixation

• Defenition of the word fixation

  • Condition that occurs when every individual within a population has the same allele at a particular locus.
  • an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
  • (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
  • an unhealthy preoccupation with something or someone
  • the activity of fastening something firmly in position
  • an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

Synonyms for the word fixation

• • addiction
  • arrested development
  • clotting
  • complex
  • concentration
  • fascination
  • fixing
  • infantile fixation
  • mania
  • obsession
  • passion
  • regression
  • thickening
  • thing

Similar words in the fixation

• • fixation
  • fixation's
  • fixations

Meronymys for the word fixation

• • plastination

Hypernyms for the word fixation

• • abnormal condition
  • abnormalcy
  • abnormality
  • attachment
  • fastening
  • preoccupation
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • saving

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