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fixed idea

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In the meantime, every pre-fixed idea on left and right is laid waste here.

I hate to burst your fixed idea that Tomasky surely comes from a long line of elitists.

On the way I passed a gingerbread shop, and the fixed idea took hold of me that you must like gingerbread.

It seems to be a fixed idea that a girl is dependent on invitations from young men for her social pleasures.

If I diagnose or treat the fixed idea of a psychasthenic, the psychological factor itself represents the disturbance.

I cannot decide, but he has told me that never till that time did he realise the sustaining power of a fixed idea.

The leader himself had one fixed idea in his mind, to reach Washington before Congress adjourned.

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On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fixed idea, such as: anxiety, fear, fixation, hang-up, insanity, and mania.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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