Preoccupation Synonyms

prē-ŏkyə-pāshən
Total occupation of the attention or of the mind
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. absorption
  2. engrossment
  3. enthrallment
  4. immersion
  5. prepossession
The act of taking occupancy before someone else does
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. absorption
  2. preoccupancy
  3. fixation
  4. daydreaming
  5. obsession
  6. amusement
  7. engrossment

Words Related to Preoccupation

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Preoccupation Sentence Examples

  • This preoccupation with him was becoming an obsession that was beginning to affect her ability to take care of the house.

  • Weakness in artillery was Cadorna's main preoccupation for many days.

  • But under the influence of Thomas Thomson (1773-1852), the professor of chemistry, he developed a taste for experimental science and especially for molecular physics, a subject which formed his main preoccupation throughout his life.

  • Her cheeks flushed again and in her desperate search for something to explain her preoccupation, she plunged into the subject of the curtains.

  • The main preoccupation of all these popes was how best to repair the injury done to orthodox Europe and to Rome by the destruction of the Latin Empire.

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