worry

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continually thinking about
absorb
absorbed
axe
be devoured by somethingidiom
be hung up on somethingidiom
be wrapped up in something/someoneidiom
brain
devour
fetishize
fixate
fixated
fixation
get into someone
nag
obsessive
obsessively
one-track mind
overactive
preoccupied
preoccupy

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preoccupation | American Dictionary

preoccupation
noun[ C/U ]
us/priˌɑk·jəˈpeɪ·ʃən/
the thing you think about most:
[ U ]His preoccupation with sports is affecting his grades.

Examples of preoccupation

preoccupation
The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity.
As such, a review of syllabus types closely parallels the salient preoccupations of the field of language teaching over time.
Neither first-order concerns about scientific accounting, whatever that could mean, nor second-order preoccupations with research methodology need to be taken too seriously.
Where this happened it took away precious time and enormous energy from other economic and social preoccupations.
Flannery progresses through a series of chapters on individual texts where the issue of illusion is examined through a set of related preoccupations.
The preoccupations present as a young child persisted.
They are part of the pursuit of a wider concept of wellbeing that draws on the preoccupations of the body in postmodernity.
When modern preoccupations are set aside, we are led to wonder whether lex in this context is correctly interpreted as 'law' and historia as 'history'.
More likely it reinforces a suspicion (and perhaps fear) that the preoccupations of the specialist do not capture the wider imagination.
As a result of such preoccupations, there has been at best a limited recognition of even the existence of labour-capital relations within artisanal production.
Emotional eating was also significantly correlated with food preoccupations, unlike restrained eating.
What are the preoccupations - thematic, formal, and pragmatic - of practitioners producing site-specific performance?
Precedents for the integration of technical and ethical preoccupations could in fact be found in the remarks of the luminaries themselves.
During the eighteenth century, theological concerns and philosophical preoccupations impacted each other in equal measure.
Despite the small theatre coteries in which they moved, the differences in their educational, religious, and client-patronage ambits contributed to divergent dramaturgic practices and preoccupations.
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