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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
| Synonyms: | addiction, case, complex, craze, crush, fascination, fetish, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, preoccupation, thing |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
| Synonyms: | a thing about something, anxiety, exaggerated reaction, fear, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Main Entry: | fetish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
| Synonyms: | bias, craze*, desire, fixation, golden calf, idée fixe, leaning, luck, mania, partiality, penchant, periapt, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation, prepossession, proclivity, propensity, stimulant, thing* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | habit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency, practice |
| Synonyms: | addiction, assuetude, bent, bias, constitution, consuetude, convention, custom, dependence, disposition, fashion, fixation, fixed attitude, frame of mind, gravitation, groove, habitude, hangup, impulsion, inclination, make-up, manner, mannerism, mode, nature, obsession, pattern, penchant, persuasion, praxis, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, quirk, routine, rule, rut, second nature, set, style, susceptibility, thing*, turn, usage, use, way, weakness, wont |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | one-track mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mind set on one idea |
| Synonyms: | attraction, compulsion, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, monomania, obsession, passion, preoccupation, prepossession, ruling passion, single-mindedness, tunnel vision |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, obsession |
| Synonyms: | attitude, bee in bonnet, craze, fad, fetish, fixation, hang-up, idée fixe, impression, mania, notion, opinion, phobia, preoccupation, quirk, style, thought |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | preoccupation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | fixation, obsession |
| Main Entry: | idée fixe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixed idea |
| Synonyms: | compulsion, fetish, fixation, infatuation, irresistible impulse, mania, monomania, obsession, obsessive compulsion, one-track mind, preoccupation |
| Main Entry: | tunnel vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blind spot |
| Synonyms: | blind side, blinders, constricted vision, fixation, monomania, myopia, narrow outlook, narrowmindedness, obsession, one-track mind, shortsightedness |
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