compulsiveness
Americannoun
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He also pointed out that when manufacturers boost sales with "words like crave-ability, snack-ability and more-ishness" it becomes "difficult for them to draw a line between that and compulsiveness on our part."
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023
It's not in Hollywood-style special effects, but in the mundane of the everyday; a casual attitude, a compulsiveness about the little things.
From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2019
“Eric thinks there is a compulsiveness, a disorder, and tries to get to the cause of that,” Clarke said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2017
A similar compulsiveness guided the purchase of his Hamptons house in 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2016
Research mathematicians attack their problems with an intensity and compulsiveness which seem related to the purity of their research.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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