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Another word for obsession

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Noun

  1. An irrational preoccupation

    See also:

    concern

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Another word for obsession

Noun
  1. See also:

    neurosis

    attraction

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Sentence Examples

  • Maybe that tidbit will take his mind off this obsession with his past.

  • If it becomes an obsession of many of the post-Reformation writers, it becomes so by the force majeure of special circumstances rather than in the exercise of an old-established habit.

  • What was this sudden obsession with her ability to run the ranch, and what made him think she was qualified?

  • Though he remained, to the end, firm in his belief that there had been an active monarchist party, 2 this obsession did not carry him out of touch with the realities of human nature and of his time.

  • Society suffers a sort of perpetual obsession, and remains self-hypnotized as it were within a magic circle of traditional views.

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