Meaning of anankastic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
2. Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.

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Examples

“1991: ‘You’re a classic anal-retentive,’ he says, ‘tirelessly absorbed by minutiae, anankastic in the extreme – it’s lucky you have me to deal with the broad sweep of things, to do the abstract thinking.’ — Will Self, ‘Mono-Cellular’, The Quantity Theory of Insanity”

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