obsession

Other forms of obsession

plural

obsessions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obsession

What does obsession mean?

obsession means "an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obsession?

obsession has 3 syllables: ob-ses-sion. The stress falls on "ses". In IPA it is /əbˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for obsession?

Close synonyms include compulsion, fixation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obsession a common word?

obsession is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with obsession?

9 words rhyme with obsession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.