Is Fixated a Real Word?

verb (used without object), fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing. to become fixed. Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development.

Is fixated a proper word?

Medical Definition of fixate

Fixators-A mechanical device put under machinery sole plates in order to level same. fixated on, by, with, Correct usage.

Is it fixed or fixated?

As adjectives the difference between fixated and fixed

is that fixated is (psychology) attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

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