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What is another word for fixations?

Pronunciation: [fɪksˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Fixations refer to a state of mind where someone is preoccupied with a particular idea, thought, or behavior. The term can also mean a physical or mechanical condition that needs to be fixed. Synonyms for fixations include obsessions, attachments, preoccupations, fixings, addictions, captivations, fetishes, compulsions, manias, and infatuations. Each of these words describes a state of mind or a problem that requires attention or correction. Fixations can be positive or negative, depending on the context in which they are used. Regardless, finding a solution to a fixation can lead to a healthier and happier life.
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  • I have had death threats from people with fixations.
    Enya
  • But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
    Thomas Lynch
  • Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
    Sybil Adelman
  • The reader will, I think, soon discover that I have tried to affirm the processes of his mental development and ripening of personality---something quite independent both of the self-idolatries of the mass and of those primitive emotional fixations and stereotypes whose antiquated symbolisms linger on under the terminology of religion. If there is anything affirmative in the assertion of the meaning of spiritual maturity in the modern world, then I may hope that the effort of this book will be regarded as constructive.
    Everett Dean Martin
  • The gesture of exposure characterizes the style of argumentation of ideology critique, from the critique of religion in the eighteenth century to the critique of fascism in the twentieth. Everywhere, one discovers extrarational mechanisms of opinion: interests, passions, fixations, illusions. That helps a bit to mitigate the scandalous contradiction between the postulated unity of truth and the factual plurality of opinions—since it cannot be eliminated. Under these assumptions, a true theory would be one that not only grounds its own theses best, but also knows how to defuse all significant and persistent counterpositions through ideology critique.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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