Definition & Meaning | English word FIXATED

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Definitions of FIXATED

1. inflection of fixate
2. (psychology) attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner

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Examples of Using FIXATED in a Sentence

• Other people may find that they are unable to urinate while in moving vehicles, or are fixated on the sounds of their urination in quiet restrooms or residential settings.
• Specialized equipment tracked the participant's gaze as they viewed the video to determine with what frequency (and for how long) they fixated upon the item of interest (the cheque or the gun).
• Ada as well is fixated on her death, but their morbidity does not take the form of lamentation or self-pity.
• Scotland, at this time, was a nation fixated on the promotion of this sort of religious and moral rectitude and probity.
• According to spiritual biographer Gary Tillery, the song targets McCartney and Lennon "for being so fixated on their own interests" but also laments all of humankind's propensity for egocentricity.
• Huey studied and quantified regressions (only a small proportion of saccades are regressions), and he showed that some words in a sentence are not fixated.
• He has three women who're head over heels for him: Uzumi Mika, a famous singer; Nono Rakuko, a famous model; and Nanjou Remon, a famous novelist yet he ignores them all since he is fixated on marrying Maki and making her move in with him.
• She has two sidekicks: Ficelle, a tall and not-very-bright blonde, and Boulotte, a short and chubby brunette who is fixated on food.
• Mister Pfister appears one day on Stella's doorstep, wishing to speak with her and, after being denied, becomes fixated on her, leaving increasingly encroaching and aggressive messages in her mailbox and threatening to destroy her quiet family life.
• His megalomaniacal general practitioner, having discovered the vagina during an examination, conceals it from Bull, telling him it was 'a burn and a wound', though later visits Bull at home, fixated on this popliteal yoni.
• Tlass, whom close friends had described as a sex-obsessed maniac who tried to sleep with as many women as he could, also described in graphic detail his outlandish attempts at seducing women: "As my eyes were fixated on her beautiful breasts I noticed she was wearing a white and transparent nightgown that concealed nothing of God's creation," Tlass wrote about a neighbor he fantasized for days.
• The trichrome is applied by immersion of the fixated sample into Weigert's iron hematoxylin, and then three different solutions, labeled A, B, and C:.
• Ellen in fear calls the 1-800 number on the back of his truck and lodges a complaint, which causes Eddie to lose his job, and he (being a grieving husband and father who earlier lost his family to a car accident) sets out to destroy Ellen's family and soon becomes fixated on Ellen and her teenage stepdaughter Cynthia (Alana Austin) and plots to have them as replacement family, by removing the head of the house, Ellen's husband and Cynthia's father Jim Carson (John Wesley Shipp).
• The lawmaker who submitted the motion of no confidence, Derek Sikua, claimed that Sogavere had lost touch with reality and become fixated on conspiracy theories, while Sogavere attributed the defections to a proposed anti-graft bill, saying that some MPs were afraid it would lead to them being imprisoned.
• Anal-expulsive refers to a personality trait present in people fixated in the anal stage of psychosexual development.
• His younger brother Jim, who is fixated on Vietnam and the Vietnam war, spends a lot of time practicing with his Nunchakus, getting high, listening to heavy metal on his boombox, and hanging out with Vietnam vet Charlie.
• Added to this are the inmates themselves, each hopelessly enmeshed in with their own obsessions and unable to communicate with the outside world but each also representing distinctly recognizable, identifiable, facets of humanity, though seen through a frighteningly distorting prism -- the judge consumed with guilt, the man who believes he is an army sergeant, a girl whose maternal feelings become fixated on a doll and so on.
• For example, a run of continuous semiquavers beamed together by two thick, roughly horizontal beams, will convey potentially valuable information about rhythm and texture, whether to the right on the currently fixated stave, or above, or above or below in a neighbouring stave.
• Using an ironically literarily aware narrator, the novel also satirises the Romantic obsession with love and the description of passion; Alencar critiques both suitors' behaviour and shows both to be fantasising, and both to be fixated on Amélia's shape, while Amélia herself is aware of Horacio's obsession and arranges the misleading appearance of the deformed foot—which belongs to someone else—to test him.
• Adapts Dorian as a modern social media influencer in an online world fixated by selfies and streaming.

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