Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a siege; obsidional.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of obsession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by
obsession
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or constituting an obsession
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Examples
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Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.
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But really what happens can happen with steroid use, with domestic homicide, and just with domestic violence in general is something that we call obsessional paranoia.
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Stekel appears to have stated that he has never seen a complete cure by psychoanalysis, and Ferenezi is not able to give a good account of the results; especially as regards what he terms obsessional homosexuality, he states that he has never succeeded in effecting a complete cure, although obsessions in general are especially amenable to psychoanalysis. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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User-made expansion pack called obsessional oceans they have pt. 1 + 2 up and they are some of the best designers i've seen in a while plus some exhibit fences and stuff check it out.
WN.com - Articles related to Food & agriculture - June 9 2010
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I suspect most of you would think I was some kind of obsessional lunatic to draw such conclusions from such evidence, but it is actual, concrete evidence, and a good bit more evidence than anyone has been throwing around here.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New York Times Profile of Sotomayor: 2009
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We say 'obsessional' because the linkage is repeated like a hypnotic mantra in the hope that a lack of evidence and historical counter-examples do not impede a good yarn.
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2009
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For analysts in the Directorate of Intelligence, the academic types who try to make sense of what the spies collect, the problem is "obsessional," like fretting endlessly over whether a safe has been locked.
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For analysts in the Directorate of Intelligence, the academic types who try to make sense of what the spies collect, the problem is "obsessional," like fretting endlessly over whether a safe has been locked.
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Pete – I wonder how much it’s becoming a generational thing – that people over, say 35 are beginning to wonder what the cost of this kind of obsessional cultural development is, whilst those under 30 are convinced we are just luddites!
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Richard Hildebrandt was what we call a “love obsessional” stalker.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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