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prepossession

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Entry Word: prepossession

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of something <the foreign touristsʼ prepossessions about life in the U.S. had been formed by many hours of American TV shows>

Synonyms preconception, prejudgment

Related Words bias, prejudice; conjecture, hypothesis, imagining, predetermination, presumption, presupposition, speculation, supposition, theorizing, theory; concept, thought

2 something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned <tried to cure him of his prepossession with money> — see fixation

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