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 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 As the world obsesses over AI, pumping endless time and money into the next revolution, the obsessions and revolutions of the past are still there lingering — and some might finally be ready to flower away from the spotlight. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 July 2026 They are filled with secrets, obsessions, and murder mysteries. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026 There are the shows where our values and obsessions were shown (and shaped) by what was on our screens. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions

Noun

For drivers, don’t forget the experts that contextualize the inevitable problems on your route.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Pulling dead plants that carry pests or diseases—which, unfortunately, applies to many crops—is key to preventing future problems.

— Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of problems

Noun

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

Noun

The wild woods, in all their unrestrained glory, came to serve as the theatre in which the fears and preoccupations of medieval society might play out in wolves’ clothing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
These milestones demonstrate that the past is colored and edited by the preoccupations of the present.

— George F. Will, Washington Post, 3 July 2026

Definition of preoccupations

Noun

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
New film Objet a revolves around Ingeborg and Adam, visionary hand surgeons bound by love, control and irresistible fixations.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 July 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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