compulsiveness

compulsive | American Dictionary

compulsive
adjective
us/kəmˈpʌl·sɪv/
having a very strong desire to do something repeatedly:
We’re really not compulsive shoppers, you know.

compulsively

adverbus/kəmˈpʌl·sɪv·li/
He is compulsively neat.

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Other writers depict collectors as obsessive-compulsives, with their objects of desire providing a central organising focus in their lives.
Related to the view of collectors as obsessive-compulsives, is the image of record collectors as socially rather inept individuals, more at ease in their relationship to things than people.
The most compulsive compulsion, the master compulsion, is the compulsion to appropriate one's own expropriation.
He did, however, exhibit many compulsive behaviours such as forced touching and also had a subjective urge to shout obscenities which was successfully resisted.
Even their stormy temperament or compulsive generosity could have been different.
The compulsive drive towards a mystical mode of religion is particularly interesting in the three faiths of historical monotheism.
The prolonging of these feverish journeys, or, more accurately, their compulsive continuation, provides a middle ground between full disclosure (or exposure) and total denial.
Pity can be evoked in the therapist, often leading to compulsive helping which deskills the client and stifles the relationship.
A composite score was calculated to establish an overall measure of possible comorbid obsessive - compulsive behavior.
In young children, these intrusive thoughts may be part of repetitive play or trauma-specific reenactment(s) or compulsive rituals.
In some mental conditions, like obsessive-compulsive disorder, the old attractors may be so stable that they overwhelm behavior in many situations.
Such a behavioural inhibition may certainly be deficient in catatonia as it is reflected in perseverative-compulsive behaviour and uncontrollable emotions.
Furthermore, alterations in lateral orbitofrontal cortex are closely associated with compulsive behaviour, for example, in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Obsessive-compulsive disorders provide examples in which the need to create and follow patterns is excessive.
Indeed, one might reasonably suspect that the sample is over-representative of obsessive-compulsive personalities.
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