Usually means: Intense, excessive focus on something.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word obsession:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsession: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obsession: Merriam-Webster
  3. obsession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obsession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obsession: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obsession: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obsession, obsession: Wordnik
  8. obsession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obsession: Wiktionary
  10. obsession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obsession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obsession: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. obsession: Dictionary.com
  14. obsession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Obsession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obsession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obsession: Rhymezone
  19. obsession, obsession (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obsession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obsession: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obsession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obsession: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsession: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obsession (disambiguation), obsession: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obsession (disambiguation), obsession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsession: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. Obsession (disambiguation), obsession: Medical dictionary

(Note: See obsessional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality of being obsessed.
noun:  An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
noun:  An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
noun:  Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.

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