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 Translation for 'obsession' from English to Spanish
NOUN   an obsession | obsessions
SYNO compulsion | fixation | obsession
manía {f}obsession
obsesión {f}obsession
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Translation for 'obsession' from English to Spanish

obsession
manía {f}

obsesión {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • The song's lyrics explain a man's liking of a woman to the point of obsession.
  • Stephen Colbert satirized what he portrayed as the media's obsession with the Wright story.
  • He distinguished several types of monomania such as "theomania" (religious obsession), "erotomania" (sexual obsession), "demonomania" (obsession with evil) and "homicidal monomania" (obsession with murder).
  • Pepe Alvarez: A Latin professional boxer who is Randolph's original obsession and muse, and the prototype that led to Randolph's obsession with young Joel, as it is inferred that Joel resembles Pepe.
  • Someone with a sexual obsession may have trouble performing sexual acts, for fear of thinking about deviant sexual behavior, and the fear of being tempted to perform such behavior when it would be harmful to them or to others.

  • 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." ...
  • An intense psychological thriller, its main theme is the nature of romantic obsession.
  • Lon Chaney plays Grumpy Anderson, a railroad engineer with an obsession for running his train on time.
  • A song about murderous obsession.
  • refers to a state of strong attachment and obsession to brothers.

  • Wells has published an autobiography "Obsession - A Life in Wireless" and is the subject of a biographical DVD "Valveman - The story of one man's lifetime of obsession".
  • Serano coins the term "effemimania" to describe the societal obsession with male and trans expressions of femininity—an obsession that she claims is rooted in transmisogyny.
  • Another central theme of the short story is obsession.
  • 3. Obsession: Following the brief phase of apparent good health, all symptoms return.
  • In this short film a young man, Jules Walter, gets kicked out of school because he has an unhealthy obsession with vampires.

  • Adèle's obsession with Pinson inspired the award-winning, 1975 biographical film "The Story of Adèle H."
  • At sunset, Ahab looks over the wake of the ship and reflects that his obsession deprives him of any enjoyment of beauty, leaving him only with anguish.
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