Usually means: Intense, excessive focus on something.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word obsession:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsession: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obsession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obsession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obsession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obsession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Obsession, obsession: Wordnik
  7. obsession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obsession: Wiktionary
  9. obsession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obsession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obsession: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. obsession: Dictionary.com
  13. obsession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Obsession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. obsession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. obsession: Rhymezone
  18. obsession, obsession (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. obsession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. obsession: Free Dictionary
  21. obsession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. obsession: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. obsession: Dictionary/thesaurus

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 (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. 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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