fixated

fix·ate  (fkst)

v. fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing, fix·ates

v.tr.

1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.

2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.

3. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: "TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything" (Jay Walljasper).

4. Psychology

a. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.

b. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

v.intr.

1. To focus the eyes or attention.

2. Psychology

a. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.

b. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

Thesaurus

fixated

adjective obsessed, fascinated, preoccupied, captivated, attached, devoted, absorbed, caught up in, single-minded, smitten, taken up with, besotted, wrapped up in, engrossed, spellbound, infatuated, mesmerized, hypnotized, hung up on (slang) monomaniacal, prepossessed << OPPOSITE uninterested