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Verb

1. 1
   To completely obsess or be absorbed in a subject or hobby to a point where a person appears to completely tune out their surroundings and where the person repeatedly returns to said subject or material; to have a hyperfixation.

   "I've been hyperfixating on obscure progressive rock bands all month."

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"I've been hyperfixating on obscure progressive rock bands all month."

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