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Meanings of obsessional in English

Characterized by or constituting an obsession.

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Usage of obsessional in English
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The Beeb is famous for its obsessional love of initials for people's jobs.
The Guardian
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That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional.
The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts
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Golf-wise, he is described as borderline obsessional and filled with knowledge.
The Guardian
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This is when her near-obsessional interest in Virginia Woolf began.
The Irish Times
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There may be other symptoms like hyperactivity or obsessional behaviour.
The Irish Times
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There are different leagues of vegetable gardener, from the give-it-a-go crowd to the obsessional anorak.
The Irish Times
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The fantasies of children, and the almost obsessional lying in some young adolescents, too, we avoid.
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
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The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous.
Night Shift
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The New Yorker, April 10, 2000 P. 52 REFLECTIONS about obsessional thinking...
The new yorker
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High dropout rates may be related to the inflexible and obsessional cognitive style of patients with AN.
Pubmed
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His psychology was too different, too obsessional.
The Reality Dysfunction
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Sourdough bakers are obsessional, meticulous folk, and they are driven by the simple, stunning conundrum of sourdough bread.
The Irish Times
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In an absorbing experiment, both arch and obsessional, the theatremaker Dick Walsh makes it his mission to know.
The Irish Times
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In this connection I must again mention that the Freudians include tics under their obsessive (obsessional) neuroses.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
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So the 32-year-old architect focused an almost obsessional level of attention on making every square inch earn its keep.
The Guardian
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The morbid and obsessional material here, worked over with infinite finesse, is susceptible to various interpretations, psychic or psychotic.
Poe
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