obsessions

noun

plural of obsession
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 They are filled with secrets, obsessions, and murder mysteries. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026 These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 There are the shows where our values and obsessions were shown (and shaped) by what was on our screens. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 June 2026 Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place! — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 24 June 2026 As Sabbath’s primary lyricist during the Ozzy years, Geezer established heavy metal’s obsessions with dread, apocalypse, insanity, and the darker corners of spirituality. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 June 2026 There’s an intrinsic pleasure in seeing filmmakers grow both older and weirder, yielding to their personal idiosyncrasies and obsessions, taking wild chances in pursuit of their passions. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026 More often, the series borrows from the overall feeling of Dippold’s inspirations, mashing up and remixing the obsessions of a lifelong horror fan. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026 After debuting in 2007, The Big Bang Theory entertained viewers with the everyday trivialities and obsessions of friends who work in science. — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions
  1. problems
  2. enthusiasms
  3. preoccupations
  4. fixations
  5. fetishes
  6. manias
Noun
  • Garbrandt’s problems probably are not fixable by a new camp or a better game plan.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
  • Injuries, pitching problems, batting with runners in scoring position and base-running issues all come to mind quickly.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026
Definition of problems
Noun
  • Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
Definition of enthusiasms
Noun
  • These milestones demonstrate that the past is colored and edited by the preoccupations of the present.
    — George F. Will, Washington Post, 3 July 2026
  • Asked to describe her thematic preoccupations as a filmmaker, Sode offers a succinct formulation.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
Definition of preoccupations
Noun
  • New film Objet a revolves around Ingeborg and Adam, visionary hand surgeons bound by love, control and irresistible fixations.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 July 2026
  • But no one who delves into Duchamp can shake the feeling that erotic fixations and frustrated romantic love are at the core of his imaginative universe.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
Definition of fixations
Noun
  • Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.
    — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Studies show the online dating space is less welcoming for Black women willing to try it — experiences include misogynoir, racial fetishes and microaggressions, in addition to biased dating app algorithms that leave many feeling invisible, less desirable and lonely.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of fetishes
Noun
  • The most dangerous manias often form around technologies that really do work.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Legendary billionaire investor Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has spent decades navigating financial manias, sea changes in interest rates, and the shifting pendulums of investor psychology.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026
Definition of manias

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