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[ noun ] an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention
Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation , because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the mental state of being preoccupied by something
Synonyms Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)But here we have a distinctly modern preoccupation ; we want to know why that book has kept_on selling the way it has ; we want_to know what is perennially new about Utopia . Related terms cognitive_state abstractedness absentmindedness steep preoccupy |
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[ noun ] the act of taking occupancy before someone else does
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