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Perseverate vs Fixate - What's the difference?

perseverate | fixate |

As verbs the difference between perseverate and fixate

is that perseverate is describing the behavior, generally displayed by those with various developmental disabilities, of extraordinary, exclusive and lasting obsession to a detail or occurrence others consider minor while fixate is to make something fixed and stable; to fix.

perseverate

English

Verb

(perseverat)
  • describing the behavior, generally displayed by those with various developmental disabilities, of extraordinary, exclusive and lasting obsession to a detail or occurrence others consider minor.
  • to repeat or continue a pattern.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (excess attention or obsession) * (l) (to repeat) *

    Derived terms

    * perseveration * perseveratory

    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.