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 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 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 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

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Noun

Much of these are solvable problems, if the right people are engaged to ensure that the community is involved from the onset.

— Neil Chatterjee, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Could the Tesla-SpaceX merger that Elon Musk floated this week pose antitrust problems?

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 23 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

His output more closely resembles that of an old studio film director’s than of a typical contemporary literary novelist, with certain themes and preoccupations reappearing across books of otherwise disparate subject matter.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
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

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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