obsessions
- 1Plural of obsession.
The novel explores the private obsessions of a reclusive painter.
Therapy helped her recognize the obsessions that were ruling her daily routine.
Note
A regular plural that belongs to the countable uses of obsession. When the word names a particular idea, activity or fixation, it counts freely: her obsessions, a lifetime of small obsessions. Used as a mass noun for the state itself, as in a portrait of obsession, it takes no plural. The plural therefore points to the fixations one by one rather than to the condition.
obsessions is a form of obsession
obsession, noun: A pursuit or thing that drives a compulsive, possibly unhealthy fixation, or the fixation it produces. Full entry
- Forms
- obsessionobsessions plural
- Spelling
- obsession → obsessions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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