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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obsession \Ob*ses"sion\, n. [L. obsessio: cf. F. obsession.]
The act of besieging. [archaic]
--Johnson.-
The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. [archaic]
--Tylor.Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine.
--Burton. An excessive preoccupation of the thoughts or feelings; the persistent haunting or domination of the mind by a particular desire, idea, or image.
Hence: Any driving motive; a compelling goal; -- not necessarily implying a negative judgment, as does sense 3; as, the coach was obsessed with winning the state championship
Something that causes an obsession[3].
The state of being obsessed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "action of besieging," from French obsession and directly from Latin obsessionem (nominative obsessio) "siege, blockade, a blocking up," noun of action from past participle stem of obsidere "to besiege" (see obsess). Later (c.1600), "hostile action of an evil spirit" (like possession but without the spirit actually inhabiting the body). Transferred sense of "action of anything which engrosses the mind" is from 1670s. Psychological sense is from 1901.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A compulsive or irrational preoccupation. 2 An unhealthy fixation. 3 Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
WordNet
n. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will [syn: compulsion]
an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone [syn: fixation]
Wikipedia
Obsession is the seventh studio album by the British rock band UFO, released in 1978. This was the final studio album to feature Michael Schenker on lead guitar until he returned to the band in 1993. A single from the album, "Only You Can Rock Me" / "Cherry", was also released in 1978. So too was the band's first 3-track EP "Only You Can Rock Me", "Cherry" / "Rock Bottom", reaching No. 50 in the UK.
2008 EMI's remastered edition includes 3 bonus live tracks, and also some writing credits are corrected.
Obsession may refer to:
Obsession (born September 29, 1976) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.
In 2001, she appeared in the groundbreaking, blockbuster hit Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle.
In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #15 on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Black Porn Stars Of All Time". Obsession is mentioned in the bestselling memoir Buck by M. K. Asante.
"Obsession" is a second season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek and was broadcast on December 15, 1967. It is episode No. 42, production No. 47, written by Art Wallace, and directed by Ralph Senensky.
In this episode, Captain James T. Kirk becomes obsessed with destroying a deadly entity he once encountered in his youth.
This episode deals with several human emotions: guilt, fear, obsession and, ultimately, redemption. While Captain Kirk is the primary focus, the viewer sees glimpses of these emotions in other members of the ship. At various times the "fight or flight" instinct is shown as an internal battle which one has to overcome in order to find emotional peace.
Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller/ mystery film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, and Stocker Fontelieu. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader, from a story by De Palma and Schrader. Bernard Herrmann provided the film's soundtrack. The story is about a New Orleans businessman who is haunted by guilt following the death of his wife and daughter during a kidnapping-rescue attempt. Years after the tragedy, he meets and falls in love with a young woman who is the exact look-alike of his long dead wife.
Both De Palma and Schrader have pointed to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) as the major inspiration for Obsession's narrative and thematic concerns. Schrader's script was extensively rewritten and pared down by De Palma prior to shooting, causing the screenwriter to proclaim a complete lack of interest in the film's subsequent production and release. Completed in 1975, Columbia Pictures picked up the distribution rights but demanded that minor changes be made to reduce potentially controversial aspects of the plot. When finally released in the late summer of 1976, it became De Palma's first substantial box office success and received a mixed response from critics.
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Obsession is an album by Eighteen Visions. The album was their most commercial to date, and featured three music videos. Some editions of this album come with a DVD that features a 'making of' the album. The album has sold over 200,000 copies in the US. The album peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers chart in the US. On July 3, 2004 the album peaked at #147 on the Billboard 200.
Obsession is a board game released in 1977 for two players in which the player wins by moving their ten rings along numbered slots. They must get all ten rings into the "safety zone" before their opponent. Each player rolls a pair of dice, and can choose either to move their own rings up, or their opponent's rings down.
The slogan for the game was "The Game You Can't Get Enough Of!"
"Obsession" is a 1983 song covered in 1984 by the group Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in early 1985, helped by a distinctive video that received heavy rotation on MTV.
Obsession is a pinball game for the Atari STe and Amiga computers, made by Unique Development Studios released in 1994.
Obsession, also known as spirit obsession, is a technical term within the Spiritist belief and practice defined by the author Allan Kardec as the interference of a subjugating spirit with a weaker spirit (cf. Latin obsidere, "besiege"). Although the term most commonly refers to the negative influence of the spirit of an evil deceased person on the mind or spirit of a living person, obsession can occur in either direction.
Obsession is believed by many Spiritists to be a major danger to unprepared and untrained mediums. It is also believed to be one of the most frequent causes of mental illness and criminal behaviour.
Because the danger of obsession is a core belief within Spiritism, dealing with it is one of the cornerstones of Spiritist religious activity, and it is treated at Spiritist centres by means of prayer and teaching. Its centrality to Spiritist doctrine and practice is one of the marks that generally distinguishes Spiritism from both Spiritualism and the Spiritual Church Movement. However, the 19th century Spiritualist author Paschal Beverly Randolph also recognized the dangers of obsession to mediums, and claimed to have been harmed by evil spirits during his own career as a Spiritualist lecturer and trance medium.
Obsession is a non-fiction book written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker about the psyches of serial killers, serial rapists, mass murderers, stalkers, and their victims, as well as how to fight back.
"Obsession" is a single which appeared on DJ Tiësto's first album, In My Memory in 2001, the track features the production of Tom Holkenborg also known as Junkie XL. The song was recorded at the Computer Hell Cabin, Amsterdam.
Obsession is an album by Bob James from 1986.
Obsession is a 1954 French language motion picture crime drama directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote screenplay with Antoine Blondin, Roland Laudenbach and Gian Luigi Rondi, based on story "Silent as the Grave" by Cornell Woolrich. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Raf Vallone.
It tells the story of a couple forming a circus trapeze, and they are involved in a murder case.
Obsession, released in the US as The Hidden Room, is a 1949 British crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the book A Man About A Dog by Alec Coppel, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, and turned the story into a novel. Obsession was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.
Obsession is a mystery novel by American author Jonathan Kellerman. It is the 21st novel in the Alex Delaware series.
Obsession is the Third studio album by Filipina singer Rachelle Ann Go. Released in 2007, Obsession. Singles released from the album is Alam Ng ating Mga Puso And Dont Say Goodbye.
"Obsession" is a song by the French Canadian Synthpop group Nudimension.
The single is in the French language (With the exception of a single English refrain from Anne Marie Cyr) and was recorded at Fountain Studios, Montreal, Canada. Released by Saison Records (Canada) in May 1984, it became the second single for Nudimension and like most singles featured [part-time TV presenter Cyr on vocals. It would achieve moderate success in French speaking regions of Canada, charting in the top 20 francophone Québécoise charts, and in Europe.
After the single charted an English-language version (Now renamed: "Rendez-Vous") was recorded. The English-language version of the song was not released as a single, however in 2009 it was featured on the band's remastered Album " The Best of Nudimension".
Obsession is the fourth album of Blue System. Was published in 1990 by BMG Ariola and produced by Dieter Bohlen. The album contains 10 new tracks.
Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera. The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the Ep "Marshall Law" and the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under the Enigma label. They broke up in 1989 to reform in 2004 releasing the album Carnival of Lies in 2006 with Mausoleum Records. Obsession then signed to the Ulterium - Inner Wound Record label to release the latest album "Order of Chaos" in 2012.
Obsession provided songs for the films Sleepaway Camp II, Sleepaway Camp III as well as for Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
The band also appears on the compilation albums Metal Blade 15th Anniversary from Metal Blade Records and Heavy Metal Machine – Pull One from Medusa Records.
Obsession is a 1997 Franco-German drama film directed by Peter Sehr and starring Daniel Craig.
The film was released in Germany on 28 August 1997 and premiered in Canada's Toronto Film Festival on 9 September the same year.
"Obsession" is a song by American recording artist Sky Ferreira. The song was written by Justin "DJ Frank E" Franks with OneRepublic members Ryan Tedder and Jerrod Bettis, both of whom co-produced it with DJ Frank E. The song was released as a single on September 14, 2010 by Capitol Records. "Obsession" has been compared to " Rock and Roll" by Gary Glitter and " I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. The song peaked at number thirty-seven on Billboards Hot Dance Club Songs. The music video for the song was directed by Marc Klasfeld, and portrays Ferreira's obsession with actor Michael Madsen.
Obsession is the second single from British singer Shayne Ward's third studio album, of the same name. It was released promotionally on February 14, 2011. Ward performed the single for the first time on The Alan Titchmarsh Show on the same day.
Obsession is a Filipino medical drama series broadcast by TV5 starring Bianca King, Neri Naig, Martin Escudero and Marvin Agustin. It is set to premiere on January 23, 2014 replacing For Love or Money on the network's primetime block.
Obsession is the second mini-album by South Korean boy band Boyfriend. It was released physically June 9, 2014.
Usage examples of "obsession".
That determination had become an obsession now, which he recognized for what it was-the sole reason for his survival and for his recently taken decision firstly to be accepted as a reformed and model prisoner at Port Arthur and secondly to abscond therefrom.
The long obsession had died with Maynard, and he had been dead before he hit the peat, like Cascade and Cotopaxi, Abseil and Col.
Western nations, thereby achieving a foreign policy goal that had become a national obsession.
The cult of Mithra, less widespread then than it has become since our expedition in Parthia, won me over temporarily by the rigors of its stark asceticism, which drew taut the bowstring of the will, and by its obsession with death, blood, and iron, which elevated the routine harshness of our military lives to the level of a symbol of universal struggle.
Not content with her own private obsession she cast her husband in the role of Wolmar, the older, rather austere but devoted figure whom Julie dutifully marries in preference to the besotted young tutor Saint-Preux.
Michael said, feeling none of the hesitance or awkwardness he would have once experienced on naming his occupation, his obsession.
The odd thing about his surprising interest in Miss Charlotte Birling was his obsession with her mouth.
Yet his obsession had burgeoned into something far more profound than desire.
For by now the civilizing mission, which was the ostensible motive of all their heroic adventures, would have become a rigid obsession.
But the cobber was trying, substituting obsession for buoyant enthusiasm.
His choosiness about where he squatted to defecate had grown to the point of compulsive obsession.
Dugger was gone by then, drinking up his settlement money in the honky-tonks of Nashville, giving up fandom for different and more dangerous obsessions.
Many of the soldiers grumbled that Farfalla was right: the general had let Ruusan become his mad obsession and was leading them to their doom.
I have no interest in illithid obsessions, but the Dekanter alhoon most likely believed that if it could recreate the gith, its elder brain would forgive it and it would receive Commencement.
And even worse, there was no lessening of his sexual urge but a heightening, a greater obsession to pillow than before, one that had already driven him to the insanity of two nights ago with Angelique, not that he did not still desire her, he did, more than ever, and knew without a release he would try again and would not fail next time.