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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>Synonymspreconception, prejudgmentRelated Wordsbias, prejudice; conjecture, hypothesis, imagining, predetermination, presumption, presupposition, speculation, supposition, theorizing, theory; concept, thought
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something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned<tried to cure him of his prepossession with money>— see fixation
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