1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary. 2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.3. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything (Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader Nov/Dec 1989). 4.Psychologya. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion. b. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
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1. To focus the eyes or attention. 2.Psychologya. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation. b. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.