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Plural of fixation

regular plural

The plural of fixation is fixations.

Forms of fixation

Singularfixation /fɪksˈeɪʃən/
Pluralfixations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Fixations in a sentence

  • Interfixation distance is the metric that is often used to measure how readers space their fixations.2012, Keith Rayner, Eye Movements in Reading: Perceptual and Language Processes. From the entry interfixation
  • They could use all the rooms for their own purposes, without decorating them the Abbaesque taste of their son or pseudo-Gothic fixations of their daughter.2008, Tara Brabazon, “Wiring God’s waiting rooms: the greying of the World Wide Web”, in Tara Brabazon, editor, The Revolution Will Not Be…. From the entry ABBAesque
  • To broadcast the hazards of parental oversolicitude, parental pressures and domination and the harmfulness of potential parental fixations is part of the service of rational constructive mental hygiene.1931, Ira S. Wile, “Mental Hygiene in Childhood”, in Mind and Body, volume 38, number 395, page 548. From the entry oversolicitude

Meaning of fixation

  1. noun The act of fixing.
  2. noun The state of being fixed or fixated.
  3. 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.

Full definition of fixation

Questions about the plural of fixation

What is the plural of fixation?
The plural of fixation is fixations.
Is fixation countable?
Fixation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fixation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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