All fixation synonyms

noun fixation

• fascination — the power or action of fascinating.
• infatuation — the state of being infatuated.
• preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
• addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
• craze — If there is a craze for something, it is very popular for a short time.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• hang-up — a preoccupation, fixation, or psychological block; complex: His hang-up is trying to outdo his brother.
• complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
• mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
• fetish — an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.
• idee fixe — fixed idea.
• obsession — the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
• passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
• paranoia — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
• neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.