obsession

[əbˈseʃn]

Definition:
1. An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will.
2. An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone.

Use 'obsession' in a sentence:

1. People are suffering psychological damage because of society's obsession with "permayouth".
2. Despite all those efforts, the PC , Mr Gates's obsession, has ended up as an internet terminal.
3. You take an obsession and confront it directly.
4. I don't understand television's current obsession with cookery programmes.
5. Literature has become an obsession with her.
6. Fitness has become an obsession with him.
7. When he was twelve, his mother bought him a guitar which became his obsession.
8. Maybe this is what obsession looks like.
9. His obsession doesn't stop there, however.
10. I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.
11. There are three main theories floating around to explain this obsession.
12. Football was still his chief obsession.
13. And society's obsession with body image?
14. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession;
15. The media's obsession with the young prince continues.
16. What makes a nail polish color obsession-worthy?
17. We can see obsession with creating jobs everywhere in public discourse.
18. I'll admit I've never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops.
19. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance have brought me to my ideals.
20. I'd say crosswords to me are probably an obsession.
21. We're paying a heavy price for Washington's obsession with phantom menaces.
22. He's never lost the certainty, the obsession that that drug really could work.
23. They're good, but they lack obsession.
24. Right now, our culture's obsession with image is holding us all back.
25. I have to insist on doing so. As a result, it brings endless trouble and obsession.
26. Tell us about the country's obsession with soap operas.
27. It's almost an obsession to be in the right place for the right image.
28. She dedicated her first album to Woody Allen, who she says understands her obsession.
29. 95% of patients know their obsessions are irrational.
30. But my primary obsession was math.
31. I'll admit I've never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified ( GM) crops.
32. Their behavior has become an obsession for entrepreneurs.
33. I unknowingly on obsession on the music, obsessed with a guzheng.
34. We watched him go out on a run the first time and wondered how long this weird obsession would last.
35. Nor is this digital obsession restricted to China.
36. Liberation is basically freedom from obsession, freedom from dualism.
37. I admire this enlightened life philosophy, rather a relentless obsession with amassing yet more personal wealth.
38. This obsession began at an early age.
39. The source of Roman obsession with unity and cohesion may well have lain in the pattern of Rome's early development.
40. What is this current television obsession with older men and nubile young women?
41. The authors argue cogently that it is high time the church lost its obsession with the subject.
42. But Anderson's adoration quickly turned to obsession and a desire to control Laura.
43. Ripley indulges a popular obsession with international test score comparisons, which show wide and frightening gaps between the United States and other countries.
44. This untutored mathematician had an obsession with numbers.
45. After decades of hype, American offices may finally be losing their paper obsession.
46. However what was never mentioned was the obsession the ancient world had with sex.
47. Yeah. Some would call that an obsession.
48. She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.
49. This is apparently the reason McDonald's restricts the availability of its popular McRib—a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
50. At the time, Steve's obsession was to build the best possible new computer, NeXT.
51. Why does South Korea have such an obsession with surgery?
52. In therapy, she began to let go of her obsession with Mike.
53. An obsession with time, saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it, seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as humans have existed.
54. With him, gambling is an obsession.
55. The obsession with current events is relentless.
56. I'm sure this Arsenal obsession with kids and youth actually contravenes the law of the land.
57. Why did I have an obsession with Jackie?
58. Beauty is big business in Singapore, where looking good is something of a national obsession.
59. TIS: What makes a nail polish color obsession-worthy?
60. We bring to our efforts a fanatical obsession with quality and exclusivity.
61. Plagiarism is like that; it's an insider's obsession.
62. Although naturalism had not become an obsession among American writers by1914, it clearly commanded the allegiance of a majority of serious young writers.
63. Her fear of flying is bordering on obsession.
64. Why is there this obsession with process?
65. A national obsession with the body beautiful may be damaging Brazilian women's health.
66. This obsession eventually ended the relationship.
67. There has been an obsession with the BRICs ( Brazil, Russia, India, China ) as new giants.
68. What about love an obsession ? that possible?
69. Our obsession with thinness is also fueled by health concerns.
70. We can't acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them.
71. Their work is frequently an obsession that overrides all other considerations.
72. His parents' obsession with keeping up appearances haunted his childhood.
73. This government has developed an unhealthy obsession with secrecy.