obsessiveness

IPA: ʌbsˈɛsɪvnʌs

Examples of "obsessiveness" in Sentences

In any creative walk of life, a certain obsessiveness to your craft is absolutely essential.
Most of us don't have the mental energy to keep up that kind of obsessiveness for long, though.
Medically mediated conception is also time-consuming and encourages a kind of obsessiveness ...
It's pretty clear, at least to me, that most of your obsessiveness is applied constructively toward doing an ambitious job well and growing the imprint.
Yeah, sure, she's doing a critique, but there is something wretchedly self-defeating about performing this kind of obsessiveness with the flaws of her own body!
If we're going to talk about "obsessiveness," then games are all really just variations on a Pavlovian theme, and there isn't much new under the sun no matter what we do.
You can post about Bishop Allen all you want 'cause tracks like "Click Click Click Click" invoke that kind of obsessiveness where you just want to listen to it over and over again until you find something else to get feverishly stuck in your head.
Ahh, that makes sense-- have the companies and developers themselves stop using the words that feed the negative reactions . . . unfortunately, gamers themselves probably won't, as there is a sort of cachet to being a "hardcore" gamer something which often, to me at least, indicates a kind of obsessiveness about the game in question.