1 having a very strong desire to do something repeatedly:
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.
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compulsivo, absorbente, compulsivo/iva [masculine-feminine]…
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