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Compulsive   /kəmpˈəlsɪv/   Listen
Compulsive

noun
1.
A person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things.



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obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive personality


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"Compulsive" Quotes from Famous Books



... her, Dede Mason, the woman; he wanted her to love him and to be loved by him; and he wanted all this glorious consummation then and there. Used to forcing issues used to gripping men and things and bending them to his will, he felt, now, the same compulsive prod of mastery. He wanted to tell her that he loved her and that there was nothing else for her to do but marry him. And yet he did not obey the prod. Women were fluttery creatures, and here mere mastery would prove a bungle. He remembered ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... customs, your settled forms, are but so many absurd arrangements to impede not merely the progress of genius, but the use of understanding? If man dared act for himself, if neither worldly views, contracted prejudices, eternal precepts, nor compulsive examples, swayed his better reason and impelled his conduct, how noble indeed would he be! how infinite in faculties! in apprehension how like ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney


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