Spellbind vs Obsess - What's the difference?
spellbind | obsess |
To attract one's attention as if by a magic spell.
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.
As verbs the difference between spellbind and obsess
is that spellbind is to attract one's attention as if by a magic spell while obsess is to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.spellbind
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*spellbindingobsess
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(es)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.}}