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preoccupation
 [pree-ok-yuh-pey-shuhn, pree-ok-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
| Synonyms: | amusement, captivation, daydreaming, distraction, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total attention toward something |
| Synonyms: | captivation, concentration, engagement, engrossment, enthrallment, fascination, hang-up, holding, immersion, intentness, involvement, occupation, preoccupation, raptness |
| Antonyms: | boredom, distraction |
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
| Synonyms: | absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
Example Sentences
- The preoccupation with money and employment expressed here is remarkable.
- Although it wears a fashionable leftist mask, this is a neo-puritan preoccupation.
- Meanwhile, uncertainties about the economy tend to feed through into a preoccupation with health care.
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust |
| Antonyms: | amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| 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: | compulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, obligation |
| Synonyms: | coercion, constraint, demand, drive, driving, duress, duty, engrossment, exigency, force, hang-up, have on the brain, monkey*, necessity, need, obsession, preoccupation, prepossession, pressure, tiger by the tail, urge, urgency |
| Antonyms: | free will, freedom, independence, liberty, license |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fad, strong interest |
| Synonyms: | chic, cry, enthusiasm, fashion, fever, furor, in thing, infatuation, kick*, mania, mode, monomania, newest wrinkle, novelty, passion, preoccupation, rage, the last word, the latest thing, trend, vogue, wrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
| Synonyms: | brown study, coldness, coolness, disinterestedness, dreaminess, impartiality, incuriosity, indifference, neutrality, nonpartisanship, objectivity, preoccupation, remoteness, reverie, unconcern, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | bias, compassion, interest, kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | distraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having one's attention drawn away |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abstraction, agitation, amusement, beguilement, bewilderment, commotion, complication, confusion, disorder, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, divertissement, engrossment, entertainment, frenzy, game, interference, interruption, pastime, perplexity, preoccupation, recreation |
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