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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91 His main preoccupation becomes the demonstration of prowess through chasing off other males that attempt to gain access to his females.
92 But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem, which had begun to prey on his mind.
93 He always takes his preoccupation with the educational cause.
94 Preoccupation with body appearance or weight.
95 The feminist preoccupation with not being seen as a sex object was another point that led to misunderstanding.
96 If you are discomfited by this preoccupation, then you have an alcohol problem.
97 Like nose-picking and a preoccupation with feculence, the inability to sit still for long periods is a defining characteristic of childhood.
98 This added even more machinery for the preoccupation of ballroom dance.
99 Karouzos's poetry shows a profound preoccupation with the Orthodox Church.
100 Common sense and moral propriety , which ignored the Romanticists, again the predominant preoccupation in literary work.http://Sentencedict.com
101 Such an excessive preoccupation with one's health can't be normal.
102 Our current preoccupation with zombies and vampires is easy to explain.
103 Perhaps such holographic knowledge will even become one's new ascending preoccupation.
104 He may put a preoccupation with the opportunity to speak, like a bandit squatting on roadside, being ready covetously to a highway robbery.
105 A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game.
106 Dynastic change and regime separation led to scholars' preoccupation with pleasure-seeking.
107 On the site of the excavations there was no evidence of preoccupation.
108 Credit and credit cards were additionally a part of his preoccupation.
109 Finally I lifted from my mind the constant preoccupation with military probl ems.
110 Austen caters to Americans'perennial 11 Anglophilia 12 as does that odd preoccupation with the royals.
111 The principal of urban planning and design preoccupation in the 21 st century is sustainable cities.
112 So he allowed his mind to be occupied with her, deeming his preoccupation to be no more than a philosopher's regard of an exceedingly novel, fresh(sentencedict.com), and interesting specimen of womankind.
113 He put a preoccupation with the opportunity to speak, like a bandit squatting on roadside, ready covetously to a highway robbery.
114 The book connects to Mr. Gilb's earlier efforts, and his preoccupation with young, working-class Mexican-American men prone to getting themselves in trouble.
115 It is clear, however, that mysticism is not the same as magic, clairvoyance, parapsychology, or occultism, nor does it consist in a preoccupation with sensory images, visions, or special revelations.
116 America should discard its preoccupation with power and stress human rights.
117 Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a condition marked by an excessive preoccupation with an imaginary or minor defect in a facial feature or localized part of the body.
118 An examination of the art of the Middle Ages tells us something about the medieval preoccupation with theological doctrine.
119 There was a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
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