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Definition of Obsession

Obsession

  1. The act of besieging.
  2. The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

Obsession Translations

obsession in Dutch is obsessie
obsession in French is hantise, superstitiion
obsession in German is Besessenheit
obsession in Italian is ubbia, ossessione
obsession in Swedish is besatthet

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