Fixate vs Presume - What's the difference?
fixate | presume |
To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
To stare fixedly at something.
To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
(psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner.
With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.
To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
* 2011 , John Patterson, The Guardian , 5 Feb 2011:
To be presumptuous; with (on), (upon), to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 75:
As verbs the difference between fixate and presume
is that fixate is to make something fixed and stable; to fix while presume is .fixate
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Verb
(fixat)presume
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* (archaic)Verb
(presum)- Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.
- I wouldn't presume to tell him how to do his job.
- If we presume that human cloning may one day become a mundane, everyday reality, then maybe it's time to start thinking more positively about our soon-to-arrive genetically engineered pseudo-siblings.
- Piliso then vented his anger on us, accusing us of lying to him. He said we had presumed on his hospitality and the good name of the regent.