Usually means: Obsessive need for order, control.
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▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Synonym of obsessive-compulsive

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unobsessive, nonobsessive, anorchous, anomal, unmaniacal, uncompulsive, anathemic, ancipitous, uncessant, unobsessed, more...

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unobsessive, nonobsessive, anorchous, anomal, unmaniacal, uncompulsive, anathemic, ancipitous, uncessant, unobsessed, more...



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