Synonyms for Preoccupation

Synonyms for "preoccupation" (230 found)

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Related words (115)

irresistible impulse knight service lay fee lease leasehold legal claim legal possession lethargy life loyalty mandate mania meditation melancholia melancholy mental distress monomania mooning moonraking morbid drive

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muse musefulness musing muted ecstasy obsession obsessive compulsion obstinacy occupancy occupation original title owning pathological indecisiveness patience patience of job pensiveness permanence perseverance persistence persistency pertinaciousness pertinacity pipe dream pipe-dreaming plodding plugging possessing possession preemption prepossession prescription profound thought property property rights proprietary rights psychalgia psychomotor disturbance rapt attention reflectiveness relentlessness requisition resolution reverie ruling passion sedulity sedulousness seisin single-mindedness singleness of purpose slogging socage speculativeness squatting stability stamina stargazing staying power steadfastness steadiness stick-to-itiveness stubbornness studiousness study stupor subjugation sublease submersion takeover taking over tenaciousness tenacity tenancy tenantry tenure tenure in chivalry thing thoughtfulness tic tirelessness title trance twitching underlease undertenancy unremittingness unresponsiveness unswerving attention usucapion usurpation villein socage villeinhold villenage walter mitty wistfulness withdrawal woolgathering

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More general

7 entries

cognitive state idea moving in occupancy occupation state of mind thought

Synonyms

2 entries

fixation preoccupancy

Related terms

2 entries

occupation preoccupy

derived

2 entries

overpreoccupation self-preoccupation

is a

2 entries

cognitive state idea

related to

8 entries

enthrallment idea mind occupation occupying preoccupied preoccupies preoccupy

Translations

27 translations across 9 languages.

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Arabic

3 entries

اِسْتِغْرَاق noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
اِنْشِغَال noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
اِنْهِمَاك noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Bulgarian

1 entries

загриженост noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Czech

3 entries

posedlost noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
starost noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
zaujetí noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Finnish

4 entries

kiinnostus noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
päähänpinttymä noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
syventyminen noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
uppoutuminen noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

German

4 entries

Anliegen noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
Beschäftigtsein noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
Besorgnis noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
Präokkupation noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Persian

1 entries

اشتغال فکری noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Besätenheit noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Russian

4 entries

заня́тие места зара́нее noun (the act of occupying something before someone else)
заня́тие места ра́ньше другого noun (the act of occupying something before someone else)
озабо́ченность noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)
поглощённость noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

zaokupljenost noun (the state of being preoccupied; enthrallment)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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Preoccupation with sex is the basis of all mental activity.

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Sami had a strange preoccupation.

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Preoccupation