| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| it certainly holds one's attention before work | 13 letters | preoccupation |
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- absorption
- mental absorption
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- prevention
- Woolgathering
- Withdrawal
- walter mitty
- absence of mind
- absentmindedness
- absorbed attention
- abstractedness
- Abstraction
- abulia
- adoption
- adverse possession
- Alienation
- alodium
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- anxiety equivalent
- anxiety state
- Apathy
- Application
- Appropriation
- arrogation
- assiduity
- assiduousness
- Assumption
- Bemusement
- Brown study
- bulldog tenacity
- Burgage
- castle building
- catatonic stupor
- Claim
- close study
- colonization
- Colony
- Complex
- Compulsion
- Concentration
- Conquest
- Constancy
- Contemplation
- contemplativeness
- Daydream
- Daydreamer
- Daydreaming
- De facto
- de jure
- Deep study
- Deep thought
- Dejection
- Dependency
- Depression
- depth of thought
- derivative title
- Detachment
- Diligence
- dogged perseverance
- *Doggedness
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- Elation
- emotionalism
- Endurance
- Engagement
- engrossment
- enslavement
- Euphoria
- Fantasy
- fantasying
- Fascination
- fee fief
- fee position
- fee simple
- fee simple absolute
- fee simple conditional
- fee simple defeasible
- fee simple determinable
- fee tail
- feodum
- Feud
- Fidelity
- Fiefdom
- fit of abstraction
- Fixation
- fixed idea
- folie du doute
- frankalmoign
- free socage
- freehold
- gavelkind
- Hang-up
- having title to
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- Holding
- hypercathexis
- hypochondria
- hysteria
- hysterics
- Idée fixe
- immersion
- indefatigability
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- industriousness
- Industry
- Insensibility
- Insistence
- insistency
- Intentness
- Involvement
- Irresistible impulse
- knight service
- lay fee
- Lease
- leasehold
- Legal claim
- Legal possession
- Lethargy
- Loyalty
- Mandate
- Mania
- Meditation
- Melancholia
- Melancholy
- mental distress
- monomania
- mooning
- moonraking
- morbid drive
- Muse
- musefulness
- musing
- muted ecstasy
- obsessive compulsion
- Obstinacy
- Occupancy
- Occupation
- original title
- Owning
- pathological indecisiveness
- Patience
- patience of Job
- pensiveness
- permanence
- Perseverance
- persistence
- persistency
- pertinaciousness
- pertinacity
- pipe dream
- pipe dreaming
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- preemption
- preoccupancy
- Prepossession
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- Property rights
- proprietary rights
- psychalgia
- psychomotor disturbance
- rapt attention
- reflectiveness
- relentlessness
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- Resolution
- Reverie
- ruling passion
- sedulity
- sedulousness
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- speculativeness
- squatting
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- Steadiness
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- Stubbornness
- studiousness
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- Stupor
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- submersion
- Takeover
- taking over
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- Tenacity
- Tenancy
- tenantry
- Tenure
- tenure in chivalry
- Thoughtfulness
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- tirelessness
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- Twitching
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- undertenancy
- unremittingness
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- unswerving attention
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- usurpation
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