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Synonyms for obsession

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Synonyms for obsession

an irrational preoccupation

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Synonyms for obsession

an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

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At last it became an obsession with her, and she made up her mind to force a change in their relations.
The house, as the case stood, admirably lent itself; he might wonder at the taste, the native architecture of the particular time, which could rejoice so in the multiplication of doors - the opposite extreme to the modern, the actual almost complete proscription of them; but it had fairly contributed to provoke this obsession of the presence encountered telescopically, as he might say, focused and studied in diminishing perspective and as by a rest for the elbow.
He was a peasant, with all the peasant's love of the soil, which, in him, had become an obsession, a disease.
"TO HANG FOR EVER OVER." It was an obsession, a torture.
It has two main features - obsessions and compulsions.
The second type of symptom is compulsions - repetitive behaviours which temporarily reduce the anxiety caused by obsessions. Common compulsions include cleaning, handwashing, counting and checking.
The second type of The second type of symptom is compulsions - repetitive behaviours which temporarily reduce the anxiety caused by obsessions. Common compulsions include cleaning, handwashing, counting and checking.
1 ( ANI ): Yahoo has released a list of world's top ten obsessions that gave people sleepless nights and do frantic online search, and the winner of the top spot is none other than the royal baby.
He said: "My character Mix has all sorts of interesting behaviours and obsessions. He's obsessed with cleanliness and tidiness but he's also harbouring an obsession for model Nerissa Nash (Elarica Gallacher).
Dear Obsessed With Little Mermaid, You're not a freak and it's not abnormal to have obsessions at your age.
This makes it difficult to overcome their obsessions.
MOVIE star Alan Cumming has launched a website which spills the beans on celebrities' quirky obsessions.
International contributors from academia, publishing, and the arts industries provide essays in two broad topics of encounters and obsessions, and the world and the archive; particular studies include the researcher as collector of failed goods, archival obsessions and obsessive archives, research as obsession with the scent of history, and new words on cold cases.