as in obsessions
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
had this bizarre idée fixe that people were spying on her with electromagnetic waves
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obsessions
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But the push and pull of styles here between two artists with different obsessions and skillsets — the mark of so many touchstone bands, sibling acts or otherwise — makes Snocaps an equally-compelling outfit.—
Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025 -
For his characters, fishing and hunting are hobbies, not burning obsessions.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Idées fixes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9es%20fixes. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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