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OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does obsessive-compulsive personality mean?
• OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY (noun)
The noun OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY has 1 sense:
1. personality characterized by a strong need to repeat certain acts or rituals
Familiarity information: OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Personality characterized by a strong need to repeat certain acts or rituals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("obsessive-compulsive personality" is a kind of...):
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
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