obsession

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  1. noun Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
  2. noun A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

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  • Recently on Offworld we played perhaps our new favorite dungeon exploring web-obsession, the cutely retro-modern Wayfarer, a rogue-like built entirely in Processing, and regurgitated rainbows (as above) at news that Toronto indie studio Capybara would be bringing their fantastic mobile puzzler Critter Crunch to the PlayStation 3 in full, hand-animated HD.
  • Ever since Trish had made it clear she was through playing second fiddle to his job, or what she called his obsession, and walked out, his social life had been so close to nonexistent that the difference hardly mattered. —  Chapter1
  • He would never use the word obsession, but that whole episode had become a lot more than just a hobby to him. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • The society in which Simeon Krug works out his obsession is an oddly three-cornered one. —  Analog May, 1971
  • Specifically, my obsession was the New York Yankees. —  A Deeper Shade Of Soul
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  1. = French obsession = Spanish obsesion = Portuguese obsessão = Italian ossessione, from Latin obsessio(n-), a besieging, from obsidere, besiege: see obsess.
 

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