Was heißt »Be­ses­sen­heit« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Be­ses­sen­heit lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • possession
  • obsession

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Aus Lucias unschuldiger Verliebtheit wurde Besessenheit.

Lucy's innocent crush turned into an obsession.

Ich verstehe seine Besessenheit für Fußball nicht.

I can't understand his obsession with football.

Synonyme

Ma­nie:
mania
Sucht:
addiction

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Tom was like a different person; you would've been forgiven for thinking that a benign spirit had suddenly taken possession of him.

  • Tom lost possession, and the opposition launched a counter-attack.

  • One of the functions of the genitive case in Russian is to denote possession.

  • Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

  • Music festival goers were met at the entrance by police sniffer dogs, resulting in over one hundred arrests for drug possession.

  • I can't understand his obsession with sports.

  • I can't understand his obsession with soccer.

  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  • Adam spent 3 years in jail for drug possession.

  • Portugal has decriminalized the personal possession of drugs.

  • You are my obsession.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

maß­los:
beyond measure
boundless
exorbitant

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Af­fekt:
affect

Be­ses­sen­heit übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Besessenheit. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Besessenheit. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 3235974, 10178005, 11307964, 10314443, 9951226, 6711077, 2982963, 2568328, 2568322, 837368, 715605, 632114 & 627397. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR