Fixation

//fɪksˈeɪʃən//

"Fixation" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Tom has a strange fixation to potato salad.

Tom has a fixation on his mother.

He's got a fixation.

Has Tom got a fixation on you?

Does Tom have a fixation on you?

The global fixation on the evolution of the novel coronavirus has knocked the DRC’s Ebola epidemic out of the media’s spotlight.

They have a fixation on Tom.

In short, "kink" covers diverse unconventional sexual interests, while a "fetish" is a specific fixation on something for sexual arousal.

My oral fixation is chewing gum.

Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...].

In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.

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