Words similar to preoccupation

Example sentences for: preoccupation

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What has replaced it is a cultural insider's sort of academic preoccupation: a task-specific, in-the-know concern with successfully negotiating the key junctures--mainly, college admission.
In the purely visual sphere, style has been a national preoccupation from the Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to the grandiose cinematographic fantasies of Fellini and Visconti in the modern era.
But there's also this unobvious one: Beware your child's "excessive preoccupation with social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc."
Quality of life remains their paramount preoccupation.
MacGregor careers from the vulgar Freudian to the idiosyncratically bizarre--for instance, "The trauma of [Darger's mother's] death was represented in his later life by an obsessional preoccupation with weather."