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preoccupation

the mental state of being preoccupied by something

an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention

Synonyms:

• Walter Mitty,
• absence of mind,
• absentmindedness,
• absorbed attention,
• absorption,
• abstractedness,
• abstraction,
• abulia,
• adoption,
• adverse possession,
• alienation,
• alodium,
• anxiety,
• anxiety equivalent,
• anxiety state,
• apathy,
• application,
• appropriation,
• arrogation,
• assiduity,
• assiduousness,
• assumption,
• bemusement,
• brown study,
• bulldog tenacity,
• burgage,
• castle-building,
• catatonic stupor,
• claim,
• close study,
• colonization,
• colony,
• complex,
• compulsion,
• concentration,
• conquest,
• constancy,
• contemplation,
• contemplativeness,
• daydream,
• daydreamer,
• daydreaming,
• de facto,
• de jure,
• deep study,
• deep thought,
• dejection,
• dependency,
• depression,
• depth of thought,
• derivative title,
• detachment,
• diligence,
• dogged perseverance,
• doggedness,
• dream,
• dreaming,
• elation,
• emotionalism,
• endurance,
• engagement,
• engrossment,
• enslavement,
• euphoria,
• fantasy,
• fantasying,
• fascination,
• fee fief,
• fee position,
• fee simple,
• fee simple absolute,
• fee simple conditional,
• fee simple defeasible,
• fee simple determinable,
• fee tail,
• feodum,
• feud,
• fidelity,
• fiefdom,
• fit of abstraction,
• fixation,
• fixed idea,
• folie du doute,
• frankalmoign,
• free socage,
• freehold,
• gavelkind,
• hang-up,
• having title to,
• hold,
• holding,
• hypercathexis,
• hypochondria,
• hysteria,
• hysterics,
• idee fixe,
• immersion,
• indefatigability,
• indent,
• indifference,
• industriousness,
• industry,
• insensibility,
• insistence,
• insistency,
• intentness,
• involvement,
• irresistible impulse,
• knight service,
• lay fee,
• lease,
• leasehold,
• legal claim,
• legal possession,
• lethargy,
• loyalty,
• mandate,
• mania,
• meditation,
• melancholia,
• melancholy,
• mental distress,
• monomania,
• mooning,
• moonraking,
• morbid drive,
• muse,
• musefulness,
• musing,
• muted ecstasy,
• obsession,
• obsessive compulsion,
• obstinacy,
• occupancy,
• occupation,
• original title,
• owning,
• pathological indecisiveness,
• patience,
• patience of Job,
• pensiveness,
• permanence,
• perseverance,
• persistence,
• persistency,
• pertinaciousness,
• pertinacity,
• pipe dream,
• pipe-dreaming,
• plodding,
• plugging,
• possessing,
• possession,
• preemption,
• preoccupancy,
• prepossession,
• prescription,
• profound thought,
• property,
• property rights,
• proprietary rights,
• psychalgia,
• psychomotor disturbance,
• rapt attention,
• reflectiveness,
• relentlessness,
• requisition,
• resolution,
• reverie,
• ruling passion,
• sedulity,
• sedulousness,
• seisin,
• single-mindedness,
• singleness of purpose,
• slogging,
• socage,
• speculativeness,
• squatting,
• stability,
• stamina,
• stargazing,
• staying power,
• steadfastness,
• steadiness,
• stick-to-itiveness,
• stubbornness,
• studiousness,
• study,
• stupor,
• subjugation,
• sublease,
• submersion,
• takeover,
• taking over,
• tenaciousness,
• tenacity,
• tenancy,
• tenantry,
• tenure,
• tenure in chivalry,
• thoughtfulness,
• tic,
• tirelessness,
• title,
• trance,
• twitching,
• underlease,
• undertenancy,
• unremittingness,
• unresponsiveness,
• unswerving attention,
• usucapion,
• usurpation,
• villein socage,
• villeinhold,
• villenage,
• wistfulness,
• withdrawal,
• woolgathering