PRE POSSESSIONS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

prepossessions

noun

plural of prepossession

as in theories

an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of something the foreign tourists' prepossessions about life in the U.S. had been formed by many hours of American TV shows

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as in obsessions

something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned tried to cure him of his prepossession with money

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Noun

These theories spreading online, one expert says, stem from people’s struggles to find a fulfilling explanation for what has happened.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
DeRenne, the hitting coach for the Triple-A Durham Bulls, would help test theories for his father, Coop, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Hawaii.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of theories

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On social media, product reviews, along with videos of proud squishy owners ranking their collections and parents poking fun at their kids’ obsessions, have generated millions of views.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of obsessions

Noun

Her boredom was sharpened by the discovery that most of her initial assumptions were wrong.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Preconceptions, assumptions, and advance knowledge in the viewing public are regarded as impediments to the capacity of the tale to surprise, startle, or transport.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of assumptions

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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

Beck never told Nilles what to play or how to play it, which left her with preconceptions ill-suited to Rush.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Over the past few years, a growing cohort of designers who put knitwear at the center of their creative practice has emerged, challenging preconceptions about knitwear and filling demand for pieces that combine craft with technical innovation.

— Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 29 July 2026

Definition of preconceptions

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