'obsession' definitions:
Definition of 'obsession'
From: WordNet
noun
An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly" [syn: compulsion, obsession]
noun
An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone [syn: obsession, fixation]
Synonyms of 'obsession'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- application,
- bedevilment,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- captivation,
- catatonic stupor,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- concentration,
- contemplation,
- conviction,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- dejection,
- depression,
- detachment,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- enchantment,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- entrancement,
- euphoria,
- fascination,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- folie du doute,
- hang-up,
- hypercathexis,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- idee fixe,
- illusion,
- immersion,
- indifference,
- insensibility,
- intentness,
- involvement,
- irresistible impulse,
- lethargy,
- mania,
- maya,
- meditation,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- monomania,
- morbid drive,
- obsessive compulsion,
- passion,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- phobia,
- possession,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- profound thought,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- rapt attention,
- ruling passion,
- single-mindedness,
- spirit control,
- studiousness,
- study,
- stupor,
- submersion,
- thing,
- tic,
- twitching,
- unresponsiveness,
- witchery,
- withdrawal