| Main Entry: | preoccupation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
Synonyms: |
amusement, captivation, daydreaming, distraction, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| Main Entry: | preoccupation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
Synonyms: |
fixation, obsession |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total attention toward something |
Synonyms: |
captivation, concentration, engagement, engrossment, enthrallment, fascination, hang-up, holding, immersion, intentness, involvement, occupation, preoccupation, raptness |
Antonyms: |
boredom, distraction |
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
Synonyms: |
absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust |
Antonyms: |
amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| 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: | compulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, obligation |
Synonyms: |
coercion, constraint, demand, drive, driving, duress, duty, engrossment, exigency, force, hang-up, have on the brain, monkey*, necessity, need, obsession, preoccupation, prepossession, pressure, tiger by the tail, urge, urgency |
Antonyms: |
free will, freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | craze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fad, strong interest |
Synonyms: |
chic, cry, enthusiasm, fashion, fever, furor, in thing, infatuation, kick*, mania, mode, monomania, newest wrinkle, novelty, passion, preoccupation, rage, the last word, the latest thing, trend, vogue, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | detachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
Synonyms: |
brown study, coldness, coolness, disinterestedness, dreaminess, impartiality, incuriosity, indifference, neutrality, nonpartisanship, objectivity, preoccupation, remoteness, reverie, unconcern, woolgathering |
Antonyms: |
bias, compassion, interest, kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | distraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having one's attention drawn away |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abstraction, agitation, amusement, beguilement, bewilderment, commotion, complication, confusion, disorder, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, divertissement, engrossment, entertainment, frenzy, game, interference, interruption, pastime, perplexity, preoccupation, recreation |