1
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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2
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prepossessions
Noun
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Drop a comment with your thoughts and theories below.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Shalett waved away macro theories about the labor market or the Federal Reserve.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Look to the other jewelry obsessions prevailing during the fall 2025 season.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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What affected me most in Lahiri’s story was the sense of time passing, the way our obsessions seem meaningless in the aftermath of tragic events (or, rather, from the larger vantage point of a life).—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In this week’s Mini Philosophy interview, anthropologist Christine Webb argues that a lot of science research is shaped by human exceptionalism, reinforcing biases and anthropocentric assumptions.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
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Offset went on to criticize social media users for making assumptions about the split.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Also not fitting the West’s preconceptions was the fact that most Soviet dissidents didn’t reject socialism.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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And in 2008, the physicist Hossein Partovi of California State University identified a particularly dramatic implication of the way quantum entanglement can undermine preconceptions derived from classical thermodynamics.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His ample thoughts on the matter are informed by a lifetime spent in conscious retrospect on his accomplishments and how the perception of his relationship with them is shared publicly.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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On Monday, Ryan Day, the head coach of Penn State's Big Ten rival Ohio State, was asked his thoughts about Franklin's dismissal.—
Matt Audilet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Prepossessions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepossessions. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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