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 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 It’s been a long journey of taking note of current events, including where the world is going, as well as people’s obsessions and fears. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 28 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

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Noun

All three owners described problems appearing after very little use.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
If climbing stairs is challenging for you due to pain, weakness, or balance problems, check in with your healthcare provider.

— Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 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

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