preoccupation
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5.6
- noun
- /ˌpriːˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
- His preoccupation with work led him to neglect his relationships with friends and family.
- constant preoccupation
- central preoccupation
- excessive preoccupation
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Watch on YouTubeSo 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
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9.9
A state of being deeply lost in thought and not noticing things around you
Being very focused on one thought or worry
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.