obsession

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ob·ses·sion [obsession obsessions] BrE [əbˈseʃn] NAmE [əbˈseʃn] noun
1. uncountable the state in which a person's mind is completely filled with thoughts of one particular thing or person in a way that is not normal
•Her fear of flying is bordering on obsession.
•~ with sb/sth The media's obsession with the young prince continues.
2. countable ~ (with sb) a person or thing that sb thinks about too much
•Fitness has become an obsession with him.

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘siege’): from Latin obsessio(n-), from the verb obsidere, from ob- ‘opposite’ sedere ‘sit’.

Thesaurus:
obsession noun U, C (usually disapproving)
•She has an unhealthy obsession with her diet.
preoccupation • • mania • • fixation • • complex • |informal hang-up • |medical neurosis •
a/an obsession/preoccupation/fixation/complex/hang-up/neurosis about sb/sth
a/an obsession/preoccupation/mania/fixation for sb/sth
a/an obsession/preoccupation/fixation with sb/sth
develop a/an obsession/complex/neurosis

Example Bank:
•He thinks all women have an obsession with shoes.
•He was in the grip of an obsession and would not listen to reason.
•I don't understand television's current obsession with cookery programmes.
•Her devotion to him bordered on obsession.
•She has an unhealthy obsession with her diet.
•The campaign has questioned the food industry's obsession for pristine packaging.
•The idea grew in his mind until it became something of an obsession.
•The media's obsession with the young prince continues.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fixation, compulsion