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{
"term": "obsession",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state in which a person’s mind is completely filled with thoughts of one particular thing or person in a way that is not reasonable or normal",
"sensetop": "obsession with somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her fear of flying is bordering on obsession."
},
{
"text": "There's a national obsession with celebrity in England.",
"contextForm": "obsession with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The media's obsession with the young prince continues."
},
{
"text": "I don't understand television's current obsession with cookery programmes."
},
{
"text": "She was in the grip of an obsession and would not listen to reason."
},
{
"text": "He has an unhealthy obsession with his diet."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["dangerous", "unhealthy", "current"],
"verb + obsession": ["become", "have"],
"preposition": ["obsession with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person or thing that somebody thinks about too much",
"sensetop": "obsession (with somebody)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Fitness has become an obsession with him."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["dangerous", "unhealthy", "current"],
"verb + obsession": ["become", "have"],
"preposition": ["obsession with"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əbˈseʃn/",
"audio": "ob/obsession/obsession__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əbˈseʃn/",
"audio": "ob/obsession/obsession__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘siege’): from Latin obsessio(n-), from the verb obsidere, from ob- ‘opposite’ + sedere ‘sit’."
}