Fixation

Noun

 * 1) The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed or fixated.
 * 2) The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
 * 3) The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
 * 4) In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
 * 5) A state of mind, involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing.

Thesaurus
Freudian fixation, anchorage, arrest, arrestation, arrested development, arrestment, blockage, blocking, check, clogging, closing up, closure, colonization, complex, compulsion, confirmation, constriction, cramp, craze, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, delay, detainment, detention, embedment, entrenchment, establishment, fascination, father fixation, fetish, fixed idea, fixedness, fixity, fixture, foot-dragging, foundation, hampering, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, hypercathexis, idee fixe, immobility, impediment, implantation, inaction, inactivity, inauguration, infantile fixation, infatuation, infixion, inhibition, initiation, installation, installment, interference, interruption, investiture, inveteracy, irresistible impulse, kick, let, libido fixation, lodgment, mania, monomania, mooring, morbid drive, mother fixation, motionlessness, negativism, nuisance value, obsession, obsessive compulsion, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, parent fixation, peopling, plantation, population, possession, pregenital fixation, preoccupation, prepossession, regression, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, retreat to immaturity, ruling passion, setback, settlement, settling, squeeze, stabilization, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, thing, tic

Etymology
From fixation.

Translations

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Etymology
fixer + -ation

Noun

 * 1) fixation
 * Tu ferais bien de vérifier les fixations avant de partir.