an anxiety disorder in which a person has intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that occur repeatedly, and in which he or she feels driven to perform certain behaviors over and over again. for example, a person may worry all the time about germs and so will wash his or her hands over and over again. having an obsessive-compulsive disorder may cause a person to have trouble carrying out daily activities.
出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/04/12 23:53 UTC 版)
obsessive-compulsive disorder (countable and uncountable, plural obsessive-compulsive disorders)