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preoccupation

[prē äk′yo̵̅o̅ pā′s̸hən, -yə-]

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noun

Preoccupation is a state of being focused on and engrossed in something, or the thing that you are engrossed in.
1. When you become obsessed with knitting, this is an example of a preoccupation with knitting.
2. When you become obsessed with knitting, this is an example of when knitting is your new preoccupation.

preoccupation

noun

a preoccupying or being preoccupied, esp. mentally
something, as an idea, which preoccupies one

Origin of preoccupation

Classical Latin praeoccupatio

preoccupation

noun

The state of being preoccupied; absorption of the attention or intellect.
Something that preoccupies or engrosses the mind: Money was their chief preoccupation.

preoccupation

Noun

(plural preoccupations)

The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
The act of occupying something before someone else.

Origin

pre- +‎ occupation

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Her cheeks flushed again and in her desperate search for something to explain her preoccupation, she plunged into the subject of the curtains.
This preoccupation with him was becoming an obsession that was beginning to affect her ability to take care of the house.
That Leo did not do more to check the tendency toward heresy and schism in Germany and Scandinavia is to be partially explained by the political complications of the time, and by his own preoccupation with schemes of papal and Medicean aggrandizement in Italy.
The whole of the writings of this time are dominated by a preoccupation with the functions of the different tissues, in itself an excellent standpoint for investigation, but frequently leading in the case of these early investigators to one-sided and distorted views of the facts of structure.
But his preoccupation about Corsica, the privations to which he and his family were then exposed, and his bad health, left him little energy to expend on purely French affairs.

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