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 Ditto some of Gibney’s other, bolder aesthetic choices, like framing numerous incidents through a first-person shooter, to emphasize Musk’s obsessions with gaming and simulation theories. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 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

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Noun

Too much light snoozing each night was associated with a higher risk of poor mental health and problems with muscles and bones.

— Mike McRae September 17, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
Medicines that calm the immune system may be used for joint pain, rashes, or more serious problems affecting the lungs, nerves, or other organs.

— Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of problems

Noun

Tyson offered up his thoughts and enthusiasms on this remarkable investigatory tool.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of enthusiasms

Noun

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

Rarely has a film ever so thoroughly self-selected by its very existence to only be watched by people who are, in some way or another, already bought into the overall fixations of everyone involved.

— Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026
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

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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