Antonyms for fixed idea
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of fixed idea
- As in mania : noun fixation, madness
- As in one-track mind : noun mind set on one idea
- As in complex : noun psychological problem
- What could words do to her, for good or evil in the face of her fixed idea?
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- But by this time it was a fixed idea with me, and I was very determined about it.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Days went by, and between them that fixed idea grew in intensity.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- It had become his fixed idea—the bar that closed up his life.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- She, for her part, clung to her fixed idea, and before long she consulted Boutan.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
- They had the fixed idea that they wanted to give one another up.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- It was perhaps a fixed idea with him that he would win you, and others misread it.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- They seldom seem to have a fixed idea of what they really want.
- Extract from : « Palmistry for All » by Cheiro
- One of its principal signs was the fixed idea as to Midsummer Day.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- We must judge the fixed idea not in itself but by its effects.
- Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot
Synonyms for fixed idea
- a thing about something
- aberration
- anxiety
- attraction
- ax to grind
- bee
- bee in bonnet
- bug
- bug in ear
- compulsion
- craving
- craze
- craziness
- delirium
- dementia
- derangement
- desire
- disorder
- enthusiasm
- exaggerated reaction
- fad
- fancy
- fascination
- fear
- fetish
- fixation
- fixed idea
- frenzy
- furor
- grabber
- hang-up
- idée fixe
- infatuation
- insanity
- lunacy
- mania
- monomania
- neurosis
- obsession
- on the brain
- partiality
- passion
- phobia
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- rage
- repression
- ruling passion
- single-mindedness
- thing
- tiger
- tiger by the tail
- tunnel vision
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