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Neurotic vs Fixate - What's the difference?

neurotic | fixate |

As an adjective neurotic

is affected with a neurosis.

As a noun neurotic

is a person who has a neurosis.

As a verb fixate is

to make something fixed and stable; to fix.

neurotic

English

Adjective

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  • Affected with a neurosis.
  • (lb) Overly anxious.
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  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,!”
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  • (lb) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has a neurosis
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    fixate

    English

    Verb

    (fixat)
  • 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.