Usually means: Obsessive focus on specific objects.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word fixations:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixations: Merriam-Webster
  2. fixations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fixations: Vocabulary.com
  4. fixations: Wordnik
  5. fixations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fixations: Wiktionary
  7. fixations: Dictionary.com
  8. fixations: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. fixations: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixations: Legal dictionary
  2. fixations: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fixations: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixations: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fixations: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fixation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fixation)

noun:  The act of fixing.
noun:  The state of being fixed or fixated.
noun:  The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
noun:  The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
noun:  In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
noun:  A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
noun:  A sexual fetish or turn-on; something one seeks in a romantic partner, often rejecting partners without the characteristic.
noun:  (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
noun:  (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
noun:  (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
noun:  (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
noun:  (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
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