as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
had this bizarre idée fixe that people were spying on her with electromagnetic waves
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Recent Examples of idée fixe
This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later.
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Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idée fixe
Noun
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The obsession with lineage is at odds with the solidarity of the Middle Passage, which created new forms of kinship.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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The work, a cheeky take on America’s obsession with pop culture and internet discourse, brought an immediate smile to my face.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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But the pieces linked libidinal fetishes with consumerist ones, a truth whose relevance has only inflated.—
Max Lakin,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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For anyone with sharp recollections of the heady rush of first love and the obsessive fixation on one person to the exclusion of all else, Dreams will strike chords.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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But while cleanliness is a virtue, germ fixation is not.—
Matt Fuchs,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Idée fixe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9e%20fixe. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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