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Example sentences for "obsessional"

Lexicographically close words:
observing; obsess; obsessed; obsessing; obsession; obsessions; obsessive; obsidian; obsolescence; obsolescent
  1. It is a trivial act of obsessional insanity, provoked by some or other insignificant psychomotor hallucination.

  2. Consciousness is maintained in its integrity both before and after, but not during, an obsessional attack, and this is equally true of tic, as are the preliminary discomfort and subsequent satisfaction that attend the obsession.

  3. It is often found in cases of insanity of the obsessional or of some other type.

  4. The association of tic with obsessional ideas is frequently encountered, but there is no similar connection between obsessions and chorea.

  5. Garnier's classification, placing the group of obsessional cases in the foreground and leaving the other more vaguely defined groups in the background, is probably better.

  6. Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.

  7. Of her own love she never became conscious, but the reflection of it, which would bring her such advantages, now became compulsive, obsessional and conscious.

  8. Secondly, it is a necessary reaction toward an unconscious psychological process, revealed in other ways, and it is to this very circumstance that it owes its obsessional nature, that is, its resistance to arguments based on logic or fact.

  9. Something had to happen, some sort of relief had to be found and the mechanism of displacement which so constantly takes part in the origin of obsessional jealousy offered the most immediate mitigation.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obsessional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    compelling; compulsive; driving; gripping; holding; impelling; obsessive