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obsessiveness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English obsessive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English obsessiveness From obsessive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The characteristic of being obsessive.
    • His obsessiveness makes it hard to get a word in when you talk to him.
    • The part of that word to focus on is bunk, short for bunkum, which is what these types attack with vigor and all the obsessiveness of the bunkum spreaders themselves. 2005 December 25, Michael Sokolove, “The Debunker”, in The New York Times Magazine: