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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

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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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