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  • fixation

    preoccupation, hang-up

  • mania

    fixation, concern

  • compulsion

    fixation, personal problem

  • infatuation

    fixation, preoccupation

  • preoccupation

    fixation

  • fetish

    fixation, personal problem

  • passion

    hang-up

  • phobia

    personal problem, complex

  • enthusiasm

    preoccupation

  • craze

    hang-up, mania

  • hang-up

    bee in one’s bonnet, complex

  • thing

    preoccupation, concern

  • neurosis

    phobia, complex

  • complex

    preoccupation, phobia

  • delusion

    mental disorder, complex

  • addiction

    characteristic

  • fascination

  • fancy

  • fixed idea

  • crush

  • desire

  • ruling passion

  • habit

    characteristic

  • rage

  • craving

  • monomania

  • fanaticism

    excessive enthusiasm

  • possession

  • fad

  • urge

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  • compulsion
  • delusion
  • enthusiasm
  • fascination
  • infatuation
  • mania
  • passion
  • phobia
  • preoccupation
  • attraction
  • case
  • complex
  • craze
  • crush
  • fancy
  • fetish
  • hang-up
  • monkey on one’s back
  • must
  • neurosis
  • phantom
  • thing
  • ax to grind
  • bug in ear
  • concrete idea
  • idée fixe
  • one-track mind
  • something on the brain
  • tiger by the tail

On this page you’ll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to obsession, such as: compulsion, delusion, enthusiasm, fascination, infatuation, and mania.

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  • fixation
  • hang-up
  • hook
  • inclination
  • jones
  • kick
  • monkey on one’s back
  • obsession
  • shot
  • sweet tooth
  • thing
  • a thing about something
  • anxiety
  • exaggerated reaction
  • fear
  • fixation
  • fixed idea
  • hang-up
  • idée fixe
  • insanity
  • mania
  • neurosis
  • obsession
  • phobia
  • preoccupation
  • repression
  • associations
  • compounds
  • conglomerates
  • ecosystems
  • entanglements
  • groups
  • networks
  • organizations
  • schemes
  • structures
  • syndromes
  • syntheses
  • systems
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  • coercion
  • constraint
  • demand
  • drive
  • driving
  • duress
  • duty
  • engrossment
  • exigency
  • force
  • hang-up
  • have on the brain
  • monkey on one’s back
  • necessity
  • need
  • obsession
  • preoccupation
  • prepossession
  • pressure
  • tiger by the tail
  • urge
  • urgency
  • addictedness
  • addiction
  • belief
  • confidence
  • craving
  • credence
  • dependency
  • faith
  • habit
  • jones
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  • trust
  • addictednesses
  • addictions
  • beliefs
  • confidences
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  1. compulsion, obsessionnoun

    an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

    «her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly»

    Synonyms:
    irresistible impulse, fixation, coercion, compulsion

  2. obsession, fixationnoun

    an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

    Synonyms:
    fixation, infantile fixation, arrested development, regression, fixing, compulsion

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  1. Curtis Houck:

    If this desire to continue on as Zucker would want them to with divisive rhetoric toward non-Democrats and an obsession with Trump and Russia, CNN will only continue to decline and truly become unsalvageable as a news organization.

  2. Eric Swalwell:

    In that (Holmes) statement that was released there was a lot to be concerned about, particularly that more witnesses described the president’s obsession with investigating his political opponents.

  3. John McDonnell:

    There should be no sales of RBS shares, full-stop. But because of this government’s obsession with privatization, the taxpayers who bailed out the bank will now incur an enormous loss.

  4. Cipy:

    Youth makes poor judgment. Youth is driven by hormones. Reason takes a backseat to blind obsession with the opposite sex.

  5. Catalunya Radio journalist Ernest Macia:

    After what has happened in the last two seasons, Champions League is now the priority — I would say it’s an obsession, in Barcelona we know we have potentially the best player of all time and that we are wasting our time committing absurd mistakes.


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  • هاجسArabic
  • obsessióCatalan, Valencian
  • posedlost, obseseCzech
  • besættelse, tvangstanke, fiks ideDanish
  • Besessenheit, fixe IdeeGerman
  • μανία, ψυχαναγκασμός, εμμονή, ιδεοληψίαGreek
  • obsesiónSpanish
  • وسواسPersian
  • pakkomielle, riippuvuusFinnish
  • obsession, idée fixeFrench
  • beò-ghlacadhScottish Gaelic
  • אובססיהHebrew
  • जुनूनHindi
  • ossessione, fissaItalian
  • דִבּוּקHebrew
  • 妄想Japanese
  • 집착Korean
  • apsēstībaLatvian
  • whakamaimoaMāori
  • dwangvoorstelling, bezetenheid, obsessie, fixatieDutch
  • obsessãoPortuguese
  • idee fixă, obsesieRomanian
  • одержимость, зацикленность, навязчивая идея, фиксация, мания, идея-фиксRussian
  • opsednutostSerbo-Croatian
  • besatthetSwedish
  • ความคิดครอบงำThai
  • sự ám ảnhVietnamese
  • obsessionYiddish
  • 困擾Chinese

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  • adj.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • characteristic.
  • n.

    • element,
    • priority,
    • essence,
    • key,
    • staple,
    • feature,
    • basis,
    • burning issue/question,
    • core.

    • defense,
    • catharsis,
    • fixated,
    • thing,
    • concern,
    • damage,
    • fetish,
    • conditioning,
    • exorcism,
    • defense mechanism.

    addiction (noun)

    • enslavement,
    • sweet tooth,
    • craving,
    • inclination,
    • hook,
    • bent,
    • dependence,
    • fixation.

    blind spot (noun)

    • tunnel vision.

    complex (noun)

    • insanity,
    • repression,
    • fear,
    • exaggerated reaction,
    • fixed idea,
    • anxiety,
    • a thing about something.

    compulsion (noun)

    • duress,
    • coercion,
    • drive,
    • duty,
    • urgency,
    • demand,
    • have on the brain,
    • constraint,
    • necessity,
    • driving,
    • tiger by the tail,
    • urge,
    • prepossession,
    • need,
    • engrossment,
    • exigency,
    • force,
    • pressure,
    • Exigencies.

    fascination (noun)

    • glamour,
    • enchantment,
    • appeal,
    • lure,
    • charm,
    • trance,
    • enthrallment,
    • witchcraft,
    • piquancy,
    • magnetism,
    • spell,
    • power,
    • allure,
    • magic,
    • charisma,
    • sorcery.

    fear (noun)

    • phobia.

    fixation (noun)

    • delusion,
    • attraction,
    • phantom,
    • craze,
    • fancy,
    • hang up.

    fixation; consumption with belief, desire (noun)

    • case.

    habit (noun)

    • consuetude,
    • fashion,
    • make-ups,
    • gravitation,
    • manner,
    • impulsion,
    • Habits,
    • disposition,
    • rule,
    • proneness,
    • wont,
    • fixed attitude,
    • custom,
    • constitution,
    • mannerism,
    • weakness,
    • habitude,
    • susceptibility,
    • groove,
    • bias,
    • usage,
    • quirk,
    • make-up,
    • pattern,
    • nature,
    • impulsions,
    • rut,
    • frame of mind,
    • use,
    • convention,
    • wonts,
    • mode,
    • praxis,
    • routine,
    • penchant,
    • persuasion,
    • Assuetude,
    • hangup,
    • style,
    • predisposition,
    • set,
    • turn,
    • propensity,
    • proclivity,
    • second nature,
    • way.

    hang-up (noun)

    • impasse,
    • block,
    • restraint,
    • reserve,
    • difficulty,
    • disturbance,
    • problem,
    • dilemma,
    • predicament,
    • inhibition.

    hobby (noun)

    • sport,
    • whimsy,
    • fun,
    • amusement,
    • labor of love,
    • avocation,
    • craft,
    • relaxation,
    • occupation,
    • game,
    • shot,
    • vagary,
    • whim,
    • diversion,
    • specialty,
    • distraction,
    • play,
    • interest,
    • art,
    • quest.

    idée fixe (noun)

    • idee-fixe,
    • irresistible impulses,
    • obsessive compulsions.

    mania (noun)

    • bee,
    • frenzy,
    • tiger,
    • dementia,
    • fad,
    • furor,
    • delirium,
    • lunacy,
    • aberration,
    • derangement,
    • craziness,
    • disorder,
    • partiality.

    neurosis (noun)

    • deviation,
    • mental illness,
    • affliction,
    • madness,
    • instability,
    • abnormality,
    • breakdown,
    • hysteria.

    obsession (noun)

    • must,
    • crush,
    • something on the brain,
    • enthusiasm,
    • concrete idea,
    • ax to grind.

    one-track mind (noun)

    • single mindedness,
    • single mindednesses,
    • onetrack mind,
    • ruling passions,
    • single-mindednesses,
    • one track mind,
    • singlemindednesses.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • single-mindedness,
    • bug in ear,
    • maladjustment,
    • maladjustments,
    • irrational motive,
    • Witcheries,
    • habit,
    • pre-conditions,
    • jones,
    • vital parts,
    • favorite occupation,
    • rage,
    • divertissements,
    • obsession,
    • Leisure Activity,
    • thing about,
    • prerequisites,
    • Leisure Activities,
    • imperatives,
    • one-track mind,
    • grabbers,
    • singlemindedness,
    • desideratum,
    • vital part,
    • bee in bonnet,
    • monomania,
    • crack-ups,
    • myopia,
    • leisure pursuit,
    • compulsion,
    • hang-up,
    • pre-requisite,
    • narrowmindedness,
    • Personality Disorders,
    • shortsightedness,
    • sideline,
    • grabber,
    • preoccupation,
    • schtick,
    • neurosis,
    • Desiderata,
    • constricted vision,
    • excessive enthusiasm,
    • obsessive compulsion,
    • on the brain,
    • irresistible impulse,
    • crackups,
    • neurasthenia,
    • psychopathy,
    • crackup,
    • fascination,
    • passion,
    • monkey on back,
    • psychological disorder,
    • pre-requisites,
    • complex,
    • pet topic,
    • personality disorder,
    • mania,
    • thing for,
    • requirements,
    • witchery,
    • Divertissement,
    • board game,
    • ruling passion,
    • narrow outlook,
    • hobby,
    • crack-up.

    phobia (noun)

    • dis taste,
    • dis-taste,
    • dis tastes,
    • dis-gusts,
    • dis-tastes,
    • dis-gust,
    • dis gust,
    • thing abouts,
    • dis gusts.

    preoccupation (noun)

    • pre-occupation,
    • pre-occupations,
    • pre occupations,
    • pre occupation.

    rage (noun)

    • hysterics,
    • wingding,
    • wrath,
    • ravings,
    • ferocities,
    • wingdings,
    • ferocity,
    • up set,
    • hysteric.

    requirement/requisite (noun)

    • pre requisites,
    • pre condition,
    • ex actions,
    • pre-condition,
    • ex-actions,
    • pro-visos,
    • pre conditions,
    • pro visos,
    • pro viso,
    • pro visions,
    • pro-viso,
    • pro-vision,
    • ex action,
    • pro vision,
    • ex-action,
    • pro-visions.

    tunnel vision (noun)

    • constricted visions,
    • Myopias,
    • shortsightednesses,
    • narrowmindednesses,
    • narrow outlooks,
    • tunnel-vision.
  • Other synonyms:

    • megalomania,
    • desire.

    • requirement.

    addiction

    • monkey.

    captivation

    • infatuation.

    dependence

    • addiction.

    zeal

    • fanaticism.

How to use «Obsession» in context?

In English, «obsession» means an intense or passionate interest in something. It can be a bad thing, because it can become a fixation on something that’s not good for you. But obsession can also be a good thing, because it can be a powerful motivation to achieve a goal. Obsession can be something that you have, or it can be something that other people have against you.

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  • Equivalence

    • Noun, singular or mass
      mania.
  • Independent

    • Noun, singular or mass
      addiction, fascination, insistence, persistence, tenacity.
  • Other Related

    • Noun, singular or mass
      concern, craze, fantasy, fetish, fixation, madness, obsessive, obstinacy, passion.

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  • n.

    • motive
      irrational motive.

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  • …or bust
  • …or something (like that)

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