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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the obsessive" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who has an obsessive nature or tendency, often in a specific context. Example: "In her latest novel, the protagonist is portrayed as the obsessive who cannot let go of past mistakes."
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the obsessive
adjective
Prone to cause obsession
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"But the obsessive quality is exaggerated.
Here, the obsessive could have gone deeper.
Bordering on the obsessive perhaps.
Not that I'm the obsessive type.
It draws the obsessive and brooding.
There's something of the obsessive about Key, too.
The obsessive focus on sex has done enough harm.
Skeptics may resist the obsessive associations of sex and misrule.
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Martha Stewart's "Homekeeping Handbook" is, of course, required reading for the obsessive-compulsive domestic diva.
He said, "The miniaturist style, the craft, the obsessive-compulsiveness is something I respond to".
Call that the obsessive-compulsive mode.
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