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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

compulsività

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kompulsivita

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Compulsivity/kəmˌpʌlˈsɪv.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #28500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il trattamento mira a ridurre la compulsività nei pazienti affetti da OCD."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or condition of performing actions repeatedly or ritualistically in response to an overwhelming urge, often to reduce anxiety.

    "The clinical assessment focused on the degree of compulsivity underlying the patient's daily rituals."
  2. 2

    A behavioral tendency characterized by an irresistible urge to perform certain acts without regard to negative consequences.

    "Her financial decisions often displayed a reckless compulsivity that alarmed her advisors."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'compulsus', the past participle of 'compellere' (to drive together or force), via Middle French and modern English morphological suffixation of '-ivity'. It entered formal psychological and psychiatric nomenclature in the 20th century to denote the state or quality of being driven to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors.

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