• n.
    ⦿an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
    lexical concept
  • her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:compulsion
  2. enl:obsession
wn:interlingual indexili:i84904

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcompulsionobsession