obsessive
- someone who has an obsession or obsessions; a person who thinks or behaves in an obsessive manner.
Origin of obsessive
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manic, distraught, compulsive, disturbed, obsessive, self-absorbed, snobbish, narcissistic, subjective, boastful, pompous, selfish, stubborn, single-minded, narrow-minded, frenzied, zealous, impassioned, enthusiastic, violentExamples from the Web for obsessive
Contemporary Examples of obsessive
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-LevittMelissa Leon
January 3, 2015
Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”
To his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.
Besides his obsessive preparations, Leslie introduced another tool to the bank-robbing trade —“the little joker.”
Historical Examples of obsessive
The most common of these obsessive acts is washing with water (washing obsession).
Totem and TabooSigmund Freud
Throughout his literary activity it has an obsessive hold on his mind.
Prophets of DissentOtto Heller
Soukanhoff was right in warning the obsessive to beware of pedantry.
Why Worry?George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
Their obsessive striving for the man proves to be determined by their restless flight from the woman.
Three Contributions to the Theory of SexSigmund Freud
Retrospective worry can be absolutely eliminated from the most obsessive mind by the practice of the veteran's philosophy.
Why Worry?George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
obsessive
- psychiatry motivated by a persistent overriding idea or impulse, often associated with anxiety and mental illness
- continually preoccupied with a particular activity, person, or thing
- psychiatry a person subject to obsession
- a person who is continually preoccupied with a particular activity, person, or thing
Word Origin and History for obsessive
obsessive
(əb-sĕs′ĭv, ŏb-)- Of, characteristic of, or causing an obsession.