infantile fixation

Questions about infantile fixation

What is another word for infantile fixation?

It depends which infantile fixation you mean. In the sense “an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely”, the synonyms are arrested development, fixation, regression. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of infantile fixation?

WordNet records no antonym for infantile fixation. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for infantile fixation come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of infantile fixation

• Full entry for infantile fixationAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for infantile fixationWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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