cathexis

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Recent Examples of cathexis Dependency and cathexis are also incredibly painful and difficult to extricate yourself from. Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020 There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis. Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020
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Noun
  • In animals, sentience is the capacity to experience sensations and emotions such as pain, pleasure and fear.
    Conor Purcell, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This is the kind of decision franchises dread—where emotion, logic, and reality collide in uncomfortable ways.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With adjustable massage nodes, three levels of intensity and the option to concentrate on one area, the convenient massage chair is customizable to your needs.
    Anna Haines, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Known for its intensity, moldavite can also help those born under this Air sign tap into their intuitive gifts and break free from stagnant energies.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And that became my obsession during the writing of the script.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Its power has been blown out of proportion precisely through the obsession, devotion, fixation through which it is regarded.
    Marlene Engelhorn, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The brand’s mission is personal, stemming from Ralph’s lifelong infatuation with jewelry and his ties to a Divine Nine fraternity.
    Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Not until the day when a woman from an infatuation a few years back introduced me to Michele.
    Claës Nordenskiöld, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Since the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, Canadian cities have been disgraced by anti-Semitic incidents of accelerating violence.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In two particular cases, creators supposedly threatened to hang themselves and commit acts of violence live on Pump.Fun.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These HDDs use the company’s Mozaic 3+ heat assisted magnetic recording, HAMR, technology, where lasers are used to reduce the magnetic fields from the write head required to write a high-densities on stable high coercivity magnetic recording media.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Both teens separately described similar environments of pro-Palestinian fervor that left them feeling ostracized, particularly when older students with no cultural ties to the Palestinians began to don keffiyehs and accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
    Beth Bailey, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That’s despite summer record-setters such as Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2 and holiday hits such as Wicked, Moana 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Way more sequels are set for 2025, driving business, if not heartfelt fervor.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Must have been like this in Amsterdam during the great tulip mania.
    Andrew Mackie, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Foreman theater answered this call by creating dreamscapes that eluded our intellect’s mania for control.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Cathexis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cathexis. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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