Recurrent, intrusive impulses or thoughts that are involuntary and ego-dystonic.
An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will.
Portuguese
obsessão Spiritist technical term describing the interference of a subjugating spirit with a weaker spirit.
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Spain's soaring borrowing costs have become a national obsession since the crisis.
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Opinion - Making small talk about the weather is our national obsession.
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This is arguably the year in which internet self-obsession reached new heights.
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Our work ethic and obsession with education make us almost ideal citizens.
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A Franco-German war is therefore, for the Soviet dictatorship, a pathological obsession.
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It's time for our government to lose its obsession with the Budget.
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It was a bestseller and started an American obsession with true crime.
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Her medical work has helped support her real obsession - making clothes.
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A paranoid state won't drop its obsession with stability any time soon.
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It was the beginning of a new obsession and a new career.
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HAS our obsession with taking the perfect travel shot gone too far?
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Other writers attacked Montaigne's digressiveness, self-obsession and all-embracing doubt for similar reasons.
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Liz has an interest in politics and an obsession with social media.
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At issue is the Vatican's pathological obsession with protecting guilty church officials.
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Without an understanding of that obsession, there was no story: just anecdote.
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However, I become increasingly irritated by his negative obsession with the 1960s.
