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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- +â€Ž 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.
Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the husband of a beauty, and in a word--an old woman; and secondly because Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized Rostov and had not responded to his greeting.
The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his friend's look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful animation of the past or the future.

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