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 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 Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the city’s two main urban areas separated by a bay, each had their own rhythms, restaurants, and obsessions. — Mimi Thorisson, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 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 Gut health has become one of wellness’s biggest obsessions, and gelatin is the latest ingredient to earn a spot in the conversation. — Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 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

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Noun

This is adding to the already high toll caused by problems with energy and water supplies, devastated crops, losses in river traffic and trade.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Some common laser problems can already be corrected automatically.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 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

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

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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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