Synonym: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy. Similar words: occupation, occupant, occupy, accusation, acculturation, participation, appreciation, presentation. Meaning: n. 1. an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention 2. the mental state of being preoccupied by something 3. the act of taking occupancy before someone else does.
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61 Perhaps some people's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this.
62 Taken overall, the preoccupation with living religions was stronger than in western art.
63 Rockburne's new paintings show her preoccupation with color and measurement.
64 In any case for the library user the style of popular books - particularly popular fiction - is often not a preoccupation.
65 Specifically, Ortega seeks to restore concrete human life to the centre-stage of philosophical preoccupation.
66 It was to salve her conscience, she thought, and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer.
67 It is noticeable that cockfighting is an exclusively male preoccupation, though this is not really analysed.
68 However, a concern to understand social policy may be distinguished from a preoccupation with the determinants of welfare.
69 The middle years of the nineteenth century witnessed a continued preoccupation with the consequences of urbanisation.
70 She heard readings from Hilton's Scale of perfection,[sentence dictionary] from which she may have absorbed her preoccupation with virginity.
71 The national question as such still remains a central preoccupation for catholic nationalists.
72 In any case, the argument was quite remote from Lenin's preoccupation with binding up the wounds of national estrangement.
73 My preoccupation with time, when I want to be timeless, has taken me to new heights of eccentricity.
74 The safety of young children is a constant preoccupation of parents at the seaside.
75 The intensity and bleakness of feeling conveyed in his work reflects a growing preoccupation with death.
76 Henceforth this system provided the framework for his preoccupation with the problems of the extinction and origin of species.
77 At first glance, it seems to defend the continuing urgency of production and our preoccupation with it as a goal.
78 That was even true of de Gaulle's other main preoccupation in these years - his ambitious and contentious foreign policy.
79 Our preoccupation with production, in other words, may be a preoccupation with a problem of rather low urgency.
80 Pay flexibility is a main preoccupation of Mr Montagu and Mr Brown in the planning stage.
81 Her preoccupation with Proteus allowed Kevin's tormented gaze to creep up as far as her knees.
82 Afterwards he decided that his intense preoccupation with politics and the Liberal Party had not represented his true conviction.
83 And increasingly, the relatively brief preoccupation with methodology was seen to have run its course in economics.
84 Not just the obvious problem: preoccupation with the financial rewards to the neglect of your research.
85 Alberti's remarks on the harmonious assortment of colours in painting also reflect a preoccupation in Florence in the early fifteenth century.
86 However, the very preoccupation with identifying causal influences begs more fundamental questions about whether contemporaries shared intellectual assumptions.
87 The relationship between content and style has been a constant and controversial preoccupation of literary critics.
88 It can never be utterly erased by our preoccupation with the self and our ignorance.
89 In her hands she carried two things that made Creusa, in all her preoccupation, start and look sharply at them.
90 Georgina's preoccupation with her appearance takes up most of her time.
More similar words: occupation, occupant, occupy, accusation, acculturation, participation, appreciation, presentation, prevarication, interpretation, representation, prestidigitation, ratification, gratification, prevention, prediction, nation, occur, prescription, donation, national, relation, operation, creation, zonation, negation, equation, education, location, formation.