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compulsiveness

NOUN
  1. the trait of acting compulsively

How To Use compulsiveness In A Sentence

  • It is the nature of compulsiveness to go until you can't go anymore.
  • That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality. Book World: A chess master who defeated himself
  • Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days. Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer
  • While gambling certainly occurs without compulsiveness or harm, just as drinking does, both carry the risk of addiction. Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids?
  • They may display nighttime fears, anger, irritability, lower tolerance for stress, nervousness, compulsiveness, helplessness, and/or powerlessness.
  • His long-term personality pattern shows features of compulsiveness and marked investment in self-regulation.
  • Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia. The One We Left Behind
  • Low-involvement parents had higher levels of psychological distress across the domains of somatization, obsessive compulsiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, and anxiety.
  • Just like her husband, she demonstrated anxiety toward and was uncomfortable with public life and her orientation toward political life was marked by compulsiveness, a lack of flexibility, and the need to control her environment.
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