preoccupation
Noun
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The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.
Anticipation of objections.
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3. Opera as a genre: Joyce had a lifelong preoccupation with opera as a generic precedent for his own fiction.
America's preoccupation with freedom became a great source of motivation for Romantic writers as many were delighted in free expression and emotion without so much fear of ridicule and controversy.
As stated in our Manifesto, our One Million Jobs in four years, Edwuma Pa, Job Creation Plan will be the predominant preoccupation of the next NDC Government.
An example is someone walking very fast in circles to the exclusion of anything else with a level of mental preoccupation (meaning not focused on anything relevant to the situation) that was not typical of the person prior to the symptom onset.
As fascinated by accountancy as he was with aesthetics, by the Seventies, diversification – not fashion design – became Cardin’s preoccupation.
Bloodaxe, p. 33. She related that her preoccupation with death began when she was seven, at a time when she was very distressed at being sent away from her mother.