preoccupation

pre·oc·cu·pa·tion

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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.

When you become obsessed with knitting, this is an example of a preoccupation with knitting.
When you become obsessed with knitting, this is an example of when knitting is your new preoccupation.

preoccupation

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- +"Ž occupation

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This preoccupation with him was becoming an obsession that was beginning to affect her ability to take care of the house.
Her cheeks flushed again and in her desperate search for something to explain her preoccupation, she plunged into the subject of the curtains.
The war, while it lasted, was of course the main preoccupation of British ministers and of the British people.
For many years extinct representatives of the Hyracoidea were unknown, partly owing to the fact that certain fossils were not recognized as really belonging to that group. The longest known of these was originally named Leptodon graecus, but, on account of the preoccupation of the generic title, the designation has been changed to Pliohyrax graecus.
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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