- shuuchaku attachment, adhesion, insistence, tenacity, fixation, obsession, clinging (e.g. to old customs)
Used for strong, often unhealthy persistence in holding onto things, feelings, or ideas; implies stubbornness or obsession.
彼は過去の成功に執着している。
Kare wa kako no seikou ni shuuchaku shite iru.
He is clinging to his past success.
彼女は若さに執着しすぎだ。
Kanojo wa wakasa ni shuuchaku shisugi da.
She is too obsessed with youth.
⚖️ Often confused with こだわり (kodawari), which is positive persistence in details, whereas 執着 is negative fixation.
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