Definition of Preoccupation

Preoccupation

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

Anticipation of objections.

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Preoccupation Quotations

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas Chamfort

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Michael Shermer

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton Marsalis

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis

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Preoccupation Translations

preoccupation in German is Vertieftseins

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