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obsession

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obsession
Psychiatry a persistent idea or impulse that continually forces its way into consciousness, often associated with anxiety and mental illness


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But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her.
She was the sort of woman who was unable to realise that a man might not have her own obsession with sex; her relations with men had been purely on those lines; and she could not understand that they ever had other interests.
It was an obsession so complete that there was no room in his soul for prudence or gratitude.
 
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