| Main Entry: | idée fixe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixed idea |
Synonyms: |
compulsion, fetish, fixation, infatuation, irresistible impulse, mania, monomania, obsession, obsessive compulsion, one-track mind, preoccupation |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
Synonyms: |
a thing about something, anxiety, exaggerated reaction, fear, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Main Entry: | fetish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
Synonyms: |
bias, craze*, desire, fixation, golden calf, idée fixe, leaning, luck, mania, partiality, penchant, periapt, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation, prepossession, proclivity, propensity, stimulant, thing* |
| Main Entry: | fixation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
Synonyms: |
addiction, case, complex, craze, crush, fascination, fetish, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, preoccupation, thing |
| Main Entry: | mania |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation, madness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, ax to grind, bee in bonnet, bee, bug in ear, bug*, compulsion, craving, craze, craziness, delirium, dementia, derangement, desire, disorder, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, fetish, fixed idea, frenzy, furor, grabber, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, insanity, lunacy, monomania, obsession, on the brain, partiality, passion, preoccupation, rage, thing, tiger by the tail, tiger |
| Main Entry: | obsession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation; consumption with belief, desire |
Synonyms: |
attraction, ax to grind, bug in ear, case*, complex, compulsion, concrete idea, craze*, crush, delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, monkey*, must, neurosis, one-track mind, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation, something on the brain, thing*, tiger by the tail |
Antonyms: |
indifference |
| Main Entry: | one-track mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mind set on one idea |
Synonyms: |
attraction, compulsion, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, monomania, obsession, passion, preoccupation, prepossession, ruling passion, single-mindedness, tunnel vision |
| Main Entry: | quirk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oddity of personality, way of doing something |
Synonyms: |
aberration, caprice, characteristic, conceit, crotchet, eccentricity, equivocation, fancy, fetish, foible, habit, humor, idiosyncrasy, idée fixe, irregularity, kink, knack, mannerism, peculiarity, quibble, singularity, subterfuge, trait, turn, twist, vagary, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, obsession |
Synonyms: |
attitude, bee in bonnet, craze, fad, fetish, fixation, hang-up, idée fixe, impression, mania, notion, opinion, phobia, preoccupation, quirk, style, thought |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |