obsessional

Speech parts

1. obsessional - Adjective

2. obsessional - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

characterized by or constituting an obsession

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

consuming neurotic compulsive overzealous addictive obsessive monomaniacal psychoneurotic megalomaniacal besetting

Antonyms

resistible

Examples

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity. Sigmund Freud

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. Jacques Lacan

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. Dirk Bogarde

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. Karl Abraham

the obsessional character of his response Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

obsession with fire obsession with food obsession with the dead obsessionalism obsessionality obsessionally