English-Thai Dictionary
obsession
N การครอบ งำ จิตใจ การ ฝัง แน่น อยู่ ใน จิตใจ preoccupation kan-krob-ngam-jid-jai
obsession
N ความหลง ใหล infatuation kwam-long-lai
obsessional
ADJ อย่าง หลงใหล yang-long-lai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
OBSESSION
n.[L. obsessio.] The act of besieging; the first attack of Satan antecedent to possession. [Little used. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
OBSESSION
Ob *ses "sion, n. Etym: [L. obsessio: cf. F. obsession. ]
1. The act of besieging. Johnson.
2. The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. Tylor. Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine. Burton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
obsession
ob ses sion |əbˈseSHən əbˈsɛʃən | ▶noun the state of being obsessed with someone or something: she cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession. • an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind: he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist. DERIVATIVES ob ses sion al |-SHənl |adjective, ob ses sion al ly |-SHənl -ē |adverb ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘siege ’): from Latin obsessio (n- ), from the verb obsidere (see obsess ).
Oxford Dictionary
obsession
ob ¦ses |sion |əbˈsɛʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state of being obsessed with someone or something: she cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession. • [ count noun ] an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. DERIVATIVES obsessional adjective, obsessionally adverb ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘siege ’): from Latin obsessio (n- ), from the verb obsidere (see obsess ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
obsession
obsession noun that new car has become his obsession: fixation, ruling /consuming passion, passion, mania, idée fixe, compulsion, preoccupation, infatuation, addiction, fetish, craze, hobbyhorse; phobia, complex, neurosis; informal a bee in one's bonnet, hang-up, thing.
Oxford Thesaurus
obsession
obsession noun the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession: fixation, ruling /consuming passion, passion, mania, idée fixe, compulsion, preoccupation, enthusiasm, infatuation, addiction, fetish, craze, hobby horse; phobia, complex, neurosis; informal bee in one's bonnet, hang-up, thing, bug.
Duden Dictionary
Obsession
Ob ses si on Substantiv, feminin Psychologie , die |Obsessi o n |lateinisch obsessio = das Besetztsein; Blockade [mit einer bestimmten Furcht verbundene ] Zwangsvorstellung oder -handlung
French Dictionary
obsession
obsession n. f. nom féminin Idée fixe. : L ’obsession de la perfection. SYNONYME hantise ; manie .
obsessionnel
obsessionnel , elle adj. adjectif Propre à l ’obsession. : Un souci obsessionnel de l ’ordre.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
obsession
ob ses sion /əbséʃ (ə )n /名詞 複 ~s /-z /1 C U 頭から離れないこと [人 ]; «…に関する » 妄想 , 執着, 執念 «with , about » ▸ Virginia Woolf became an obsession for Tom .ヴァージニア ウルフはトムにとって忘れがたい人となった ▸ He had an obsession with money .彼はお金のことが頭から離れなかった .2 C 強迫観念 .
obsessional
ob ses sion al /əbséʃ (ə )n (ə )l /形容詞 名詞 C 強迫観念にかられた (人 ), 〈考え 感情が 〉ぬぐいがたい (obsessive ).