fixed idea
a persistent or obsessing idea, often delusional, that can, in extreme form, be a symptom of psychosis.
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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.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierIt seems to be a fixed idea that a girl is dependent on invitations from young men for her social pleasures.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsIf I diagnose or treat the fixed idea of a psychasthenic, the psychological factor itself represents the disturbance.
Psychotherapy | Hugo Mnsterberg
I cannot decide, but he has told me that never till that time did he realise the sustaining power of a fixed idea.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonThe leader himself had one fixed idea in his mind, to reach Washington before Congress adjourned.
Historic Adventures | Rupert S. Holland
British Dictionary definitions for fixed idea
an idea, esp one of an obsessional nature, that is persistently maintained and not subject to change: Also: idée fixe
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