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 Eimers, a father of nine in Lenoir City, Tennessee, wears his emotions and his obsessions on his sleeve. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 22 July 2026 Topics include your bucket list, your current obsessions, and your craziest travel stories. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026 Stories about people like him, his culture, his faith, his musical obsessions and influences like Haggard, Bob Seger, and Bruce Springsteen that, at the time, weren’t exactly in step with country radio. — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026 As the world obsesses over AI, pumping endless time and money into the next revolution, the obsessions and revolutions of the past are still there lingering — and some might finally be ready to flower away from the spotlight. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 July 2026 They are filled with secrets, obsessions, and murder mysteries. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 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 These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026 Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place! — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions
  1. problems
  2. enthusiasms
  3. preoccupations
  4. fixations
  5. fetishes
  6. manias
Noun
  • Its answer is that enough outside researchers will catch problems.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Any adult experiencing persistent memory problems should get a clinical evaluation, which is the gateway to blood test eligibility.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 25 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
  • Tupper’s Mick, at the mercy of his brittle fetishes, may be the most believable of this quartet.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of fetishes
Noun
  • Jonestown afflicted Naipaul’s vision, his way of deciphering not just political manias but the dreariness of urban life, the perpetual doom of the nuclear-arms race.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
  • The most dangerous manias often form around technologies that really do work.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Definition of manias

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