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Obsessive   /əbsˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Obsessive

adjective
1.
Characterized by or constituting an obsession.  Synonym: obsessional.  "Obsessive gambling"
noun
1.
A person who has obsessions.



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"Obsessive" Quotes from Famous Books



... through a window. He is in a veritable panic, and yet presents no other fears; is a reader and thinker, clever at his work (he is a painter), but his fear remains inaccessible and uncontrollable. Often one experience of this kind builds up an obsessive fear; the associations left by the experience give the fear an open pathway to consciousness, without any inhibiting power. As in this case, the whole life of ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... Place Vendome. Marat, the homicidal monomaniac, constitutes himself, after the 23rd of August, official journalist at the Hotel-de-ville, political advisor and consciousness of the new Commune, and the obsessive plan, which he preaches for three years, is merely an instant ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 2 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... obsessive dread showed plainly on his face and in his movements. Such a fear would have induced most men to abandon any enterprise which was not fraught with compelling necessity; with him insistent curiosity seemed to counterbalance it. The man's face, ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey


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