obsessionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/əbˈseʃ.ən/us/əbˈseʃ.ən/B2 something or someone that you think about all the time:
an unhealthy obsession with death
her chocolate obsession
He's always wanted to find his birth mother but recently it's become an obsession.
More examples
- He has an obsession with cleanliness.
- His campaign for fathers' rights has become an obsession.
- The kids have an obsession with computer games.
- I've got a bit of a jewellery obsession.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continually thinking about
- absorb
- absorbed
- axe
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be hung up on sth idiom
- be wrapped up in sth/sb idiom
- devour
- fixated
- fixation
- get into sb
- have an axe to grind idiom
- have sth on the brain idiom
- mania
- nag
- obsessive
- one-track mind
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- preoccupy
- prey
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