[fɪkˈseɪʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something
(e.g: our fixation with diet and fitness)

- the action or process of fixing or being fixed
(e.g: sand-dune fixation)

- the action of concentrating the eyes directly on something
(e.g: during the period of total blindness there was a complete absence of visual fixation)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form): from medieval Latin fixatio(n-), from fixare (see fix)