[yandere ; yandere] (n, adj-f) (m-sl) (from 病む and デレデレ) person (usu. female) with an unhealthy romantic obsession (has a connotation of mental instability) [Add to Longdo]
[つのをためてうしをころす, tsunowotameteushiwokorosu] (exp, v5s) to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a camel and swallow a gnat; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point [Add to Longdo]
[きょうはくしんけいしょう, kyouhakushinkeishou] (n) obsessional neurosis [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
obsess \ob*sess"\, v. t. [L. obsessus, p. p. of obsidere to
besiege; ob (see {Ob-}) + sedere to sit.]
1. To besiege; to beset. [archaic] --Sir T. Elyot.
[1913 Webster]
2. To excessively preoccupy the thoughts or feelings of; to
haunt the mind persistently.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
obsess \ob*sess"\, v. i.
To be excessively or persistently preoccupied with something;
-- usually used with on or over; as, to obsess over an
imagined insult.
[PJC]
At all ages children are driven to figure out what it
takes to succeed among their peers and to give these
strategies precedence over anything their parents foist
on them. Weary parents know they are no match for a
child's peers, and rightly obsess over the best
neighborhood in which to bring their children up.
--Steven
Pinker (How
the Mind
Works, p.
449-450
[1997]).
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obsess
v 1: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
[syn: {haunt}, {obsess}, {ghost}]
2: be preoccupied with something; "She is obsessing over her
weight"
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