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Concern vs Obsessed - What's the difference?

concern | obsessed |

As verbs the difference between concern and obsessed

is that concern is (label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to while obsessed is (obsess).

As a noun concern

is that which affects one's welfare or happiness.

As an adjective obsessed is

intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.

concern

English

Noun

  • That which affects one's welfare or happiness.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}
  • The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 citation , passage=Appleby
  • A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
  • * 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):
  • Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.
  • (computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
  • * 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)
  • At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31
  • *:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
  • *(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)
  • *:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • (label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
  • (label) To make somebody worried.
  • :
  • Derived terms

    * concernable

    obsessed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsess)
  • Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
  • *E. W. Sprague, 1915 , Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism , page 86, ISBN 0766140725.
  • *:Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess' one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is ' obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
  • *2007 , James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus , page 100, ISBN 1430303913.
  • *:It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...
  • *2010 , Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom , page 71, ISBN 1612154107.
  • *:What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
  • * 1997 , Philip Roth, American Pastoral :
  • What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed , though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.
  • * 1999 , Mark Lawson, The Guardian , 28 Jun 1999:
  • Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
  • * 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
  • Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed .