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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

迷恋的

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: míliàn de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fixated/ˈfɪk.sɪ.tɪd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他对这个项目非常迷恋。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Causing someone to be obsessively concerned with or directed towards a particular thing.

    "He became fixated on the tiny details of the painting, ignoring the overall composition."
  2. 2

    In psychoanalysis, arrested at a particular stage of emotional or psychological development.

    "The psychological profile suggested an individual fixated at an early developmental stage."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the past participle of the verb 'fixate', originating from the Latin 'fixus' (past participle of 'figere', meaning 'to fasten'). It entered modern psychological and general vocabulary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, initially through psychoanalysis to describe an obsessive attachment to an object, person, or stage of development.

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