Definition of "compulsiveness" [compulsiveness]

• The state of being compulsive (noun)

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• "That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality."
• "Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia."
• "Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days."