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Meaning of "compulsiveness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPULSIVENESS

compulsiveness  [kəmˈpʌlsɪvnes] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPULSIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compulsiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPULSIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of compulsiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of compulsiveness in the dictionary is the quality of being or acting compulsive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPULSIVENESS


cojones
koˈxones
colones
kəˈlones
complicatedness
ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪdnes
demoness
ˈdiːmənes
heathenesse
ˈhiːðəˌnes
jejuneness
dʒɪˈdʒuːnnes
sultaness
ˈsʌltənes

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPULSIVENESS

compulsative
compulsatory
compulse
compulsion
compulsionist
compulsitor
compulsive
compulsively
compulsivity
compulsorily
compulsory
compulsory liquidation
compulsory purchase
compunction
compunctious
compunctiously
compurgation
compurgator
compurgatorial
compurgatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPULSIVENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of compulsiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «compulsiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPULSIVENESS

Find out the translation of compulsiveness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compulsiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compulsiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

compulsiveness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compulsividad
570 millions of speakers

English

compulsiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

compulsiveness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتسلطة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

навязчивости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compulsiveness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

compulsiveness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compulsion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Compulsiveness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zwanghaftigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

compulsiveness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

충동 성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Compulsiveness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

compulsiveness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

compulsiveness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिवार्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kompulsif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compulsività
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

compulsiveness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нав´язливості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

viciu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ορμητικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvångsmässighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

compulsiveness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compulsiveness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPULSIVENESS»

The term «compulsiveness» is normally little used and occupies the 134.764 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPULSIVENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «compulsiveness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «compulsiveness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compulsiveness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPULSIVENESS»

Discover the use of compulsiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compulsiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Staying Out of Step: Compulsiveness and Detachment in ...
Moreover, C.U.S.P's vision of domestic recovery as “essentially aesthetic” ratchets up compulsiveness as anti-interior. C.U.S.P doesn't seek to change the fundamental structures generating anxiety-provoking waste; they want to play with ...
Elizabeth Anne Freudenthal, 2007
2
Compulsiveness to Consciousness (eBook):
Sadhguru. in plenty in the past, but nothing has been done in the last few hundred years. This infrastructure is completely missing in most parts of the world . Everything is oriented towards survival, but there is nothing for a human being to  ...
Sadhguru, 2013
3
Juvenile Delinquency
And it certainly does not require repeated emphasis that in waywardness no motivational contact with the unconscious exists. 9) The concepts of rigidity and compulsiveness will be explained in greater detail in one of the following chapters of ...
Carl Frankenstein
4
The Reality of Every Curse Reversed
Chapter. Twenty-Five. Compulsiveness. I tried to leave the compulsive chapter out of this book because I've not attained all the victory over this area of my life, and I do not like it that way. I was set free from the curse of compulsiveness when I ...
Joan Ann Warnell, 2004
5
Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents ...
Hollender (1978) noted the confusion among psychotherapists between compulsiveness and perfectionism. Compulsiveness refers to "a pattern of behavior that serves to fend off unacceptable feelings or impulses, perfectionism to ...
Patricia A. Schuler, 2000
6
True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment
The second tells us that the compulsiveness of the desire from which an act arises has nothing to do with whether it ought to be prohibited, but does deserve consideration at the time of sentencing. What kind of consideration? One possible ...
J. Budziszewski
7
Psychodynamic Concepts in General Psychiatry
Compulsiveness itself belongs, however, to the very essence of the neurotic process. As Kubie (1954) stressed, the stamp of the neurotic process is its compulsiveness — its insatiability, automaticity, and endless repetitiveness. To this one ...
Harvey J. Schwartz, Efrain Bleiberg, Sidney H. Weissman, 1995
8
Alcoholism: The Cause, the Cure ; the Proven Holistic ...
When we don't think about our actions and it is bad for us, it is called compulsiveness; such as addiction. However, it is a compulsive act of a parent to run in front of a car to save their child from getting hit, or running into a burning building to ...
Genita Petralli, 2004
9
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
... of James, whose definitions differs from mine only in that he does not restrict the "meaning," that is, the ultimate logical interpretant, as I do, to a habit, but allows percepts, that is, complex feelings endowed with compulsiveness, to be such.
Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, 1974
10
The Roots of the Ego
It is in the first group considerably lower than the ego's directedness to the act (a constellation that constitutes the compulsiveness so characteristic of the acts of this group of delinquents), whereas ego participation and ego directedness are ...
Carl Frankenstein, 1967

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPULSIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compulsiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bernie Sanders gets slimed by the New York Times: This is what a …
... women fantasize being raped: the pleasurable compulsiveness of the fantasies reveals the sickness of the sexual roles in American society. «Salon, Jul 15»
2
The Times Doctrine on Bernie Sanders
... women fantasize being raped: the pleasurable compulsiveness of the fantasies reveals the sickness of the sexual roles in American society. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Culture Of Life 101 ... 'Is Homosexuality An Addiction?'
The driving force of this compulsiveness is the inferiority complaint. This makes the longing insatiable, because the same complaint will always ... «Church Militant, Jun 15»
4
Unlike NFL Draft, ESPN reporters will be allowed to tip NBA Draft picks
First, the NBA doesn't strike me as having the same obsessive compulsiveness of the NFL in needing to control every single detail of minutiae ... «Awful Announcing, Jun 15»
5
Single Father Photographs The Complexities Of Raising A Daughter …
... but when you are looking at pictures, you can see things like how she has torn paper into little pieces from her obsessive compulsiveness.". «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
James Rhodes: How music saved the concert pianist's life
His compulsiveness, the unusual focus that allows him to memorise symphonies, his manic tendencies as well as his depressions, all are ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
Five reasons why you never want to be rich
Instead it makes you more prone to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsiveness, ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
8
'Absolute stoned addict' faces sentencing for break-ins
... who hasn't stood in the shoes of an addict can adequately understand what it's like to feel the compulsiveness that drugs can have on you. «Livingston Daily, Jun 15»
9
From surreal to sexual
Hefuna's work is a testament to obsessive compulsiveness and its blackness recalls the abstract woodworks of Louise Nevelson. As you ... «The Recorder, Jun 15»
10
Roc of Ages: Dame Dash's Second Chance at a Second Act
He's a grownup dude with grownup responsibilities and childlike compulsiveness to keep busy. But at the moment, he is just a man who is ... «Noisey, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Compulsiveness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/compulsiveness>. Apr 2024 ».
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