PREPOSSESSIONS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

prepossessions

noun

plural of prepossession

as in theories

an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of something the foreign tourists' prepossessions about life in the U.S. had been formed by many hours of American TV shows

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as in obsessions

something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned tried to cure him of his prepossession with money

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Noun

Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of theories

Noun

If an employee hesitates or overcommits, avoid making assumptions or asking defensive questions.

— Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of assumptions

Noun

Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026

Definition of enthusiasms

Noun

As always, the science of leadership is a great deal more nuanced than our implicit preconceptions would imply.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Beck never told Nilles what to play or how to play it, which left her with preconceptions ill-suited to Rush.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of preconceptions

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