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| NOUN: | 1. A subject or activity that inspires lively interest: craze, enthusiasm, passion, rage. See CONCERN. 2. Psychiatry. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychology : aberration, alienation. See SANE. 3. An irrational preoccupation: fetish, fixation, obsession. Informal : thing. See CONCERN.
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