Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Force; compulsion.
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- noun the state of being
compulsive
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- noun the trait of acting compulsively
Etymologies
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Examples
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While gambling certainly occurs without compulsiveness or harm, just as drinking does, both carry the risk of addiction.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids? MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2012
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While gambling certainly occurs without compulsiveness or harm, just as drinking does, both carry the risk of addiction.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids? MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2012
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Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia.
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Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia.
I Spent My Life Trying Not To Become My Brother -- So Why Was It So Hard To Let Him Go? Jessica Pearce Rotondi 2011
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That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself Michael Dirda 2011
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Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia.
I Spent My Life Trying Not To Become My Brother -- So Why Was It So Hard To Let Him Go? Jessica Pearce Rotondi 2011
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Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days.
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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