Synonym: compulsion, fixation. Similar words: session, obsessed, cession, recession, secession, oppression, digression, concession. Meaning: [əb'seʃn] n. 1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone.
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121. He has an unhealthy obsession with death.
122. He has an obsession with postage stamps.
123. Caused or conditioned by compulsion or obsession.
124. This government has developed an unhealthy obsession with secrecy.
125. To beg drinks in the saloon became an obsession.
126. I'll stick around to indulge your obsession.
127. Liberation is basically freedom from obsession, freedom from dualism.
128. Watergate had begun to turn into a national obsession.
129. Candies are a national obsession, with expensive Swiss roll cakes, rusks and US$10-a-piece chocolates considered little luxuries that are too hard to give up for most people.
130. Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of that nightmare, He shared Hitler's obsession with an Aryan master race, Together they manufactured the genocide of the Final Solution.
131. This obsession with China's impressive GDP growth often ignores discussion of what's causing that growth and whether it's self-sustained.
132. Anglophilia is an obsession not with the English per se but with that stratum of them best described as positively smashing.
133. Halfway, the best in show is a low-budget tale of obsession by an Iranian working in the US.
134. Your own obsession with false - imbalances has made you lethargic and hypocritical.
135. Few of Fechner's ideas have survived in modern psychophysics and yet Fechner's obsession with measurement lives on today in many areas of psychology.
136. Alexander's obsession with the mythological Achilles pleases his mother, Queen Olympias.
137. We thought we had found a way to blunt the obsession with Vietnam.
138. The principal story is about a fast - living adventuress with an obsession with wealth and fame.
139. Yet over the past year or two, I have found my obsession increasingly unrewarding.
140. Lily is an atmospheric and suspenseful tale of love, loss and obsession.
141. The obsession with short selling is obstructing what should be a comprehensive look at excessive short-run volatility.
142. Aversion therapy, famously employed in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange to cure Alex of his obsession with violence, was used up to the 1980s, but has since been discredited.
143. As much as their obsession with novelty, Russians' powerful nostalgia has been part of Mr Novikov's rise to become his country's bt-known restaurateur.
144. Cuteness is the key to the contemporary urban obsession with small dogs.
145. "Obsession with and craving time on the computer results in neglect of real-life personal relationships to the point of divorce,(sentencedict.com) " Wieland says.
146. Officials would need to let go of their obsession with exchange rate competitiveness.
147. As a result, he’s a typical baby boomer — openly critical of Japan’s obsession with capitalism.
148. The sunlight at the heart of the painting eradiate everything, a dazzling example of Turner's obsession with the power of nature.
149. SCL-90 consisted of 90 items, summarizing as 9 factors: somatization, obsession, sensitivity of interpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety, hostility, fear, crankiness and psychotic diseases.
150. I know it's a cornball thing but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without.
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