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Word: Preoccupation
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century (first used in rhetoric in the sense ‘anticipating and meeting objections beforehand’): from Latin praeoccupatio(n-), from praeoccupare ‘seize beforehand’ (see preoccupy)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
prɪˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the state or condition of being preoccupied or engrossed with something
Short Definition:state or condition of being preoccupied or engrossed with something
Examples:- he began to overcome his preoccupation with germs
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