obsessiveness
nounEtymology From obsessive + -ness.
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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: