Noun
The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. Bell hooks
... a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst. Isabel Allende
Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent. Perry Anderson
If wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional opposite to fixation at such a point, the sociological form of the "stranger" presents the unity, as it were, of these two characteristics. Georg Simmel
I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation. David Liss
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people. Geoffrey S. Fletcher