OBSESSIONS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

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 Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood. — Yvonne Villaseñor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Lepore argues that these seeming misreads are partly responsible for their obsessions with technological progress—no matter the human cost. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 The Umberto Panini Maserati Collection unites both obsessions on the Hombre dairy farm, where historic Trident cars share the grounds with Parmigiano Reggiano production. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 That’s the stuff that drives obsessive fans, and those obsessions need to be fed, regularly and well. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026 That’s an angle for conflict that tracks with a lot of the show’s other obsessions, especially its zippy, mordant humor. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 No one needs to understand your musings or obsessions except you. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 On social media, product reviews, along with videos of proud squishy owners ranking their collections and parents poking fun at their kids’ obsessions, have generated millions of views. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Programs such as HyCAT are intended to provide more frequent opportunities to test technologies in realistic flight conditions, potentially allowing developers to identify problems earlier and iterate more quickly.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
The court also said any problems caused by the timing of the ruling is the fault of the secretary of state, who waited eight months before making a decision on the ballot initiative.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026

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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

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In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Vaz felt a resonance with the preoccupations with land, people and colonialism that have defined her filmography to this point.

— Dylan Adamson, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
And anyone who has read even a little of Cusk’s previous work will recognize that these concerns map suspiciously closely to Cusk’s own preoccupations with artificiality.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of preoccupations

Noun

But their work is less likely to become clichéd, because any stale fixations will always be rinsed and refreshed by the real.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
Both of them have erotic fixations with that original Miasma, which requires stepping back into the movie — and the glories of the disreputable genre itself.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of fixations

Noun

Instead, we’re presented with deviant men defined only by their fetishes, creating an uneasy imbalance that’s impossible to ignore.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of fetishes

Noun

The railway manias left behind functioning rail networks, and the dot-com bubble left behind server and network infrastructure that made the following two decades of internet companies cheap to build.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
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

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