fixation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.

The brain is removed and preserved for further study following formalin fixation. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
He had developed a fixation, unreasoning and murderous; he'd get even with the man who had caused the trouble. — Astounding Stories, August, 1931, Various
If this legal rate should be fixed below the lowest market rate, the effects of this fixation must be nearly the same as those of a total prohibition of interest. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

arrested development, infantile fixation, regression

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