Obsess vs Enchant - What's the difference?
obsess | enchant |
To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
To think or talk obsessively about.
To attract and delight, to charm.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
To cast a spell over.
* 2009 , Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary , Paizo Publishing, ISBN 978-1-60125-183-1, page 241
As verbs the difference between obsess and enchant
is that obsess is to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion while enchant is to attract and delight, to charm.obsess
English
Verb
(es)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
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* *enchant
English
Alternative forms
* enchaunt (obsolete) * inchant (obsolete) * inchaunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
- With the aid of his eponymous pipes, a satyr is capable of weaving a wide variety of melodic spells designed to enchant others and bring them in line with his capricious desires.