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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.Ìýnoting 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.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of obsessive-compulsive1
Example Sentences
She weaned him off clozapine entirely in 2018 and Cauchi also stopped taking medication to treat his obsessive-compulsive disorder the year after, she said.
Last year, he starred in the romantic drama “Turtles All the Way Down,†the film adaptation of John Green’s young adult novel that explores the complexities of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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.
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