Souci.
1. A feeling of sympathy for someone or something.
2. An anxious feeling; SYN. care, fear.
3. Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; SYN. worry, headache, vexation.
4. Something that interests one because it is important or affects one.
ETYM Latin praeoccupatio: cf. French préoccupation.
1. An idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention.
2. The mental state of being preoccupied by something; SYN. preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment.