obsession

Definition of obsession in English English dictionary: A compulsive or irrational preoccupation; An unhealthy fixation; {n} the act of besieging, a close attack; A persistent, unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring; an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will; A persistent and seemingly uncontrollable thought; an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone; {i} compulsive thought, fixation; craziness about a certain issue; excessive preoccupation; If you say that someone has an obsession with a person or thing, you think they are spending too much time thinking about them. She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher 95% of patients know their obsessions are irrational. an extreme unhealthy interest in something or worry about something, which stops you from thinking about anything else; A negative thought we cannot let go of Something that has no basis in reality but still drives us; The state of being besieged; used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without; The act of besieging; Persistent, intrusive thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that repeatedly enter a person's mind Obsessions are seemingly beyond one's will, and awareness of their inappropriateness is of little or no help in controlling them Obsessions and obsessive interests are a common feature of autistic spectrum disorders See also Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; A persistent, repetitive, and unwanted thought Cannot be eliminated by logic or reasoning; a recurrent and persistent thought, impulse, or image experienced as intrusive and distressing
obsession compulsion: neurotic obsession, obsessive need to constantly repeat certain acts
obsess: To think or talk obsessively about
Stop obsessing over it, will you!.
obsess: To dominate the thoughts of someone
Thoughts of her obsess my every waking moment.
obsess: To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion
obsess: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
obsess: be preoccupied with something; "She is obsessing over her weight
obsess: {f} be abnormally preoccupied with something, be fixated; worry, annoy
obsess: be preoccupied with something; "She is obsessing over her weight"
obsess: To besiege; to beset
obsess: If something obsesses you or if you obsess about something, you keep thinking about it and find it difficult to think about anything else. A string of scandals is obsessing America She stopped drinking but began obsessing about her weight I started obsessing that Trish might die
obsessions: plural of obsession