obsessivity


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Noun 1. obsessivity - extreme compulsiveness
compulsiveness, compulsivity - the trait of acting compulsively
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Such obsessivity of indirect thought-presentation, as Allan Ingram suggests, draws attention to a self-conscious presence distancing and reducing the tension created through awakening sympathy for the characters.
"A peculiar fusion of soul": narration, characterisation, and the self in Sons and Lovers

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