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obsessive-compulsive
[ uhb-ses-iv-kuhm-puhl-siv ]
adjective
- noting or relating to a personality characterized by perfectionism, indecision, conscientiousness, concern with detail, rigidity, and inhibition.
- Psychiatry. noting or relating to a disorder or neurosis characterized by persistent intrusion of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or the performance of actions, as repeated hand-washing, that one is unable to stop (compulsions):
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
noun
- a person having obsessive-compulsive traits.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of obsessive-compulsive1
Example Sentences
The “Fast Car†singer says that in addition to anxiety, he has a “particularly wicked†version of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
They were also asked whether the participants' parents, siblings or children were ever diagnosed with major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other mood or psychiatric disorders.
In this case, that mainly includes the earnest David, a digital ad salesman and devoted family man with controlled obsessive-compulsive disorder and a low threshold for embarrassment, the latter of which Benji repeatedly tests.
More than eight million people in England are taking antidepressants, for depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other conditions - a million more than five years ago.
And if this is indeed “Mr. Monk’s Last Case,†I’d give Tony Shalhoub, who has won three Emmys for playing the detective tormented by obsessive-compulsive disorder, a chance to prevail.
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