obsession
Example Sentences
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Nonclimbers may not grasp precisely what is going on in these moments, but they will feel the excitement and begin to understand the obsession.
It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
The 47th president is a man of many whims and some obsessions.
In the world we still manage to call real, one only has to turn on the news to see the self-inflicted carnage this obsession has wrought.
From Los Angeles Times
He said the articles drove him "paranoid beyond belief" and made him feel like he was "part of an endless pursuit, a campaign, an obsession of having every aspect of my life under surveillance".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
