preoccupation
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5.6
- noun
- /ˌpriːˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
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preocupación
- His preoccupation with work led him to neglect his relationships with friends and family.
- constant preoccupation
- central preoccupation
- excessive preoccupation
So for my entire life, my preoccupation has been hydrating.
- So for my entire life, my preoccupation has been hydrating.
- It's just a preoccupation with being right.
- And I think that theologians have different preoccupations than philosophers do.
- But anxiety is a preoccupation with fear.
- In the morning, those preoccupations come.
- The second problem with this career preoccupation with classism is that doesn't allow for diversity.
- Your non narcissistic parents preoccupation may have meant that there was no one to run interference for you.
- The the issue to me is the the personal integrity of public leaders has never been a preoccupation of mine.
- This twinned preoccupation with reading and responsibility surfaces again in the two questions around which a mercy is structured.
- So there's a, there's a preoccupation with being orderly, with perfectionism, with always being in control, mental control, relationship control.
- It's now an over preoccupation with whether somebody is offended or not, rather than looking at the issues of real substantive harm.
- It's having an affair, but also preoccupation with sex with animals.
- Nature was never a preoccupation of CIM at all.
- It, it, it's an absolute preoccupation with, with us, with our society.
Examples
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And scholars reasonably have asked why there was such a preoccupation with Florence at this time.
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Why this preoccupation with time?
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It's just a preoccupation with being right.
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I mean, it's become this sort of popular preoccupation for you and in youth culture.
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It's the central preoccupation of my life.
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But anxiety is a preoccupation with fear.
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A preoccupation with my own mortality.
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The participants exhibited a preoccupation with food.
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Dali, whose life started with the death of his brother, had a preoccupation with his own death.
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No one else seemed to notice his preoccupation, which made everything all the more unreal.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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5.1
A very strong, lasting interest that controls your thoughts and actions
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7.5
An unhealthy strong interest in someone or something that harms daily life
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4.9
A person gives complete attention to something and does not notice other things
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7.6
Being lost in thought and not noticing other things
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6.1
A very strong focus on someone or something that harms your life
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7.0
Thinking about something too much and doing the same thing again and again
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7.0
Full attention to something that makes you forget other things
Being very focused on one thought or worry
A state of being deeply lost in thought and not noticing things around you
Antonyms
How Preoccupied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word preoccupation also comes from pre- 'before' and occupation (from occupy) meaning 'to take up space'. So, a preoccupation is a thought or worry that takes up your mind before other things and keeps your attention.