obsessive compulsive

[uhb-ses-iv-kuhm-puhl-siv]

ob·ses·sive-com·pul·sive

[uhb-ses-iv-kuhm-puhl-siv]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a personality style characterized by perfectionism, indecision, conscientiousness, concern with detail, rigidity, and inhibition.
2.
Psychiatry. of or pertaining to a neurosis characterized by persistent intrusion of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or the performance of actions, as repeated hand-washing, that one is unable to stop (compulsions).
noun
3.
a person having such a personality style.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1925–30
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