compulsiveness
- a word derived from compulsive.
Example Sentences
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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
He was also a complete cosmopolitan, and the contentiousness of city life also went into Mann’s string quartet compulsiveness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
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
