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Antonyms for obsessions

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh b-sesh-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : əbˈsɛʃ ən

Definition of obsessions

Origin :
  • 1510s, "action of besieging," from French obsession and directly from Latin obsessionem (nominative obsessio) "siege, blockade, a blocking up," noun of action from past participle stem of obsidere "to besiege" (see obsess). Later (c.1600), "hostile action of an evil spirit" (like possession but without the spirit actually inhabiting the body). Transferred sense of "action of anything which engrosses the mind" is from 1670s. Psychological sense is from 1901.
  • noun fixation; consumption with belief, desire
Example sentences :
  • Opinions are much divided on the matter of obsessions and possessions of the devil.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • Here again the most frequent is the cure of paralytic symptoms and of obsessions.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • Like other obsessions, they come to grief in the presence of something real.
  • Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
  • Their thoughts are our thoughts, their obsessions, our obsessions.
  • Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys
  • Like the obsessions of the insane, there is a deadly inevitability in the logic of them.
  • Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin
  • Since the hour of her earliest childhood she had watched these obsessions and dreaded them.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Sir Hugh Walpole
  • These obsessions cripple both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • The physicians had ordered her away from the Paris palace, with its gloomy decorations so stimulating to her obsessions.
  • Extract from : « The Enemies of Women » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • These oppressions and obsessions, the deadly anxiety, the futile responsibility and the boredom are too much for me.
  • Extract from : « A Journal of Impressions in Belgium » by May Sinclair
  • Those were the obsessions of a pregnant woman, you thought—something she was to be soothed and coddled into forgetting.
  • Extract from : « The Real Adventure » by Henry Kitchell Webster

Synonyms for obsessions

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