as in fascinations
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
her latest obsession is a movie star who she thinks is very handsome
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Recent Examples of obsessions
This makes its bestsellers both affordable and fueled by the latest fashion obsessions — a winning combo.
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Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
But obviously the choices of who those characters are, and the premise of each story will reflect your obsessions.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
But where Sematary drew inspiration from underground rap, Ghost Mountain’s earliest obsessions were indie bands like Modest Mouse and the Unicorns, whose anxious songs and caterwauling vocals struck a chord somewhere between naive and degenerate.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2025
The organization encourages people to seek a mental health professional when a person’s obsessions and compulsions begin to affect their quality of life.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Gen Z’s tech obsessions The digitally-native generation loves their smartphones, with 87% of teens owning an Apple iPhone, according to Piper Sandler’s survey.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
But by the end of the year, the firewall in German politics had become one of Musk’s obsessions.
—Simon Shuster/berlin, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
These are two essential American obsessions.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
The entire Emilia-Romagna region is home to many of my culinary obsessions—like tagliatelle al ragù, tortellini (allegedly named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love’s navel), mortadella, prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, fizzy Lambrusco, and so much more.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
But obviously the choices of who those characters are, and the premise of each story will reflect your obsessions.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
But where Sematary drew inspiration from underground rap, Ghost Mountain’s earliest obsessions were indie bands like Modest Mouse and the Unicorns, whose anxious songs and caterwauling vocals struck a chord somewhere between naive and degenerate.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2025
The organization encourages people to seek a mental health professional when a person’s obsessions and compulsions begin to affect their quality of life.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Gen Z’s tech obsessions The digitally-native generation loves their smartphones, with 87% of teens owning an Apple iPhone, according to Piper Sandler’s survey.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
But by the end of the year, the firewall in German politics had become one of Musk’s obsessions.
—Simon Shuster/berlin, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
These are two essential American obsessions.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
The entire Emilia-Romagna region is home to many of my culinary obsessions—like tagliatelle al ragù, tortellini (allegedly named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love’s navel), mortadella, prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, fizzy Lambrusco, and so much more.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions
preoccupations
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His camera’s graceful gyrations render all the more explicit the inextricable bond of dramas and their landscapes, embodying the film’s ideal of a physical and aesthetic connection with nature—its preoccupations with the spiritual dimensions of landscape and climate, color and texture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Sanger vividly conveys the immediacy of decision-making, showing how short-term preoccupations shape the long term.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Obsessions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessions. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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