OBSESSION DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
obsession n 1: an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly" [syn: compulsion, obsession] 2: an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone [syn: obsession, fixation] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) obsession noun Date: 1680 1. a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly compelling motivation <an obsession with profits> 2. something that causes an obsession • obsessional adjective • obsessionally adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary obsession (obsessions) If you say that someone has an obsession with a person or thing, you think they are spending too much time thinking about them. She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher... 95% of patients know their obsessions are irrational. N-VAR: oft N with n English Explanatory Dictionary obsession əbˈseʃən n. 1 the act of obsessing or the state of being obsessed. 2 a persistent idea or thought dominating a person's mind. 3 a condition in which such ideas are present. øøobsessional adj. obsessionalism n. obsessionally adv. [L obsessio (as OBSESS)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Obsession \Ob*ses"sion\, n. [L. obsessio: cf.F. obsession.] 1. The act of besieging. --Johnson. 2. The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. --Tylor. Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine. --Burton. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) obsession əbˈseʃən n. fixed idea, id÷e fixe, fixation, conviction, preoccupation, prepossession, passion, mania, phobia, Colloq hang-up, thing: Thoughts of death became his constant obsession. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 81 Moby Thesaurus words for "obsession": absorbed attention, absorption, abstraction, abulia, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, application, bedevilment, bewitchery, bewitchment, captivation, catatonic stupor, complex, compulsion, concentration, contemplation, conviction, deep study, deep thought, dejection, depression, detachment, elation, emotionalism, enchantment, engagement, engrossment, entrancement, euphoria, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, folie du doute, hang-up, hypercathexis, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, idee fixe, illusion, immersion, indifference, insensibility, intentness, involvement, irresistible impulse, lethargy, mania, maya, meditation, melancholia, mental distress, monomania, morbid drive, obsessive compulsion, passion, pathological indecisiveness, phobia, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, profound thought, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, rapt attention, ruling passion, single-mindedness, spirit control, studiousness, study, stupor, submersion, thing, tic, twitching, unresponsiveness, witchery, withdrawal |
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