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

This means large language models cannot independently invent groundbreaking theories or offer original insights.

— Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Even today, astronomers are still trying to understand exactly how these extraordinary objects form, with recent observations continuing to challenge existing theories about their evolution.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of theories

Noun

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

Definition of obsessions

Noun

These failures stemmed not from new vulnerabilities, but from basic security flaws like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints, and reliance on assumptions over robust controls.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Was there anything that challenged your own assumptions about what's happening along our northern border?

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 31 July 2026

Definition of assumptions

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

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
In graceful, gimlet-eyed prose, Edwidge Danticat stares down preconceptions of family and belonging, lending her novel propulsion and promise.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

Definition of preconceptions

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