📚 noun • entry_id 41621
idée fixe
/iː.deɪ ˈfiːks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
idea fija • piñón fijo
An idea dominating the mind and maintained despite evidence to the contrary; (loosely), an obsession.
[“]A foreign policy of domination through spiritual means is [Jorane Sutt’s] idée fixe, but it’s my notion that his ultimate aims aren’t spiritual.[”]
“There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way…
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