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 Our personal histories and our relationships, our musical obsessions, our mistakes, and our triumphs. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026 Outside of work, her obsessions include the cinema, karaoke, overpriced small plates restaurants and in true London fashion, the pub. — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026 Scorsese says a director’s job is to make the audience fall in love with their obsessions. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026 Two groups on Beirut City Pop, Force and Games, are fronted by Saadi, and each shows different sides of his obsessions. — Shy Clara Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026 In sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm, pocket museum creators envelop visitors in environments centered on their obsessions. — Dina Cheney, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026 The food obsessions, fears and even nightmares went away, but so too did Jasper’s grasp of the seriousness of his condition. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 What if, deep down, this is yet another example in the long history of one of New York’s most enduring obsessions? — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Restaurants are the place where those obsessions over details are useful. — Daniel Humm, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions
  1. problems
  2. enthusiasms
  3. preoccupations
  4. fixations
  5. fetishes
  6. manias
Noun
  • Vance isn’t the only prospective candidate tied to Trump with new problems after the midterms.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Keep mulch lines a few inches away from plant bases to reduce some rodent problems.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 6 Nov. 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
  • Time is one of Butler’s preoccupations—its fleeting nature, its nonlinear experience, its rubberbanding effect on our perception.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Now, last weekend, onto that was grafted what looks like a completely different set of people and preoccupations who, most frighteningly, burned down the Limoges town hall.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of preoccupations
Noun
  • No, the scene exists so that Fielder can smuggle in some of his signature comedy fixations.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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
Definition of manias

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“Obsessions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessions. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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