An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OBSESSION
obsession, fixation
(noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
compulsion, obsession
(noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; “her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
obsession (countable and uncountable, plural obsessions)
A compulsive or irrational preoccupation.
An unhealthy fixation.
Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
Anagrams
• bosonises
Source: Wiktionary
Ob*ses"sion, n. Etym: [L. obsessio: cf.F. obsession.]
1. The act of besieging. Johnson.
2. The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. Tylor. Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine. Burton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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