Obsession meaning

əb-sĕsh'ən, ŏb-
Obsession is defined as the act of letting a thought or action rule your thoughts or actions.

An example of an obsession is when a stalker continues to follow a person.

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Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
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The act of an evil spirit in possessing or ruling a person.
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The definition of an obsession is a focus on one thing with little interest in anything else.

An example of an obsession is a child wanting to talk only of trains.

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A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.
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A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.
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A pattern of unwanted or intrusive thoughts or urges that recur persistently, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
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Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
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Origin of obsession

  • From Latin obsessio (“a besieging"), from obsidere (“to besiege"); see obsess.
    From Wiktionary

Obsession Sentence Examples

  • Maybe that tidbit will take his mind off this obsession with his past.

  • If it becomes an obsession of many of the post-Reformation writers, it becomes so by the force majeure of special circumstances rather than in the exercise of an old-established habit.

  • What was this sudden obsession with her ability to run the ranch, and what made him think she was qualified?

  • Though he remained, to the end, firm in his belief that there had been an active monarchist party, 2 this obsession did not carry him out of touch with the realities of human nature and of his time.

  • Society suffers a sort of perpetual obsession, and remains self-hypnotized as it were within a magic circle of traditional views.

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