Synonyms of the word

fixation

• n. The act of fixing.
• n. The state of being fixed or fixated.
• n. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition;…
• n. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
• n. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
• n. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
• n. (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby…
• n. (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular…

abnormalcy

• n. Alternative form of abnormality.

abnormality

• n. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
• n. Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.

attachment

• n. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
• n. A strong bonding towards or with.
• n. A dependence, especially a strong one.
• n. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
• n. The means by which something is physically attached.
• n. (computing) A file sent along with an email.
• n. (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
• n. (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

obsession

• n. A compulsive or irrational preoccupation.
• n. An unhealthy fixation.
• n. Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.

preoccupation

• n. The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
• n. The act of occupying something before someone else.

preservation

• n. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

regression

• n. An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
• n. An action of travelling back in time.
• n. (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act…
• n. (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a…
• n. (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable…
• n. (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
• n. (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.