coerciveness
- noun
- /koʊˈɜːrsɪvnəs/
- Offensive
:
coerción
- Some leaders use coerciveness to ensure compliance from their followers, often leading to resentment.
Examples
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The coerciveness of the new regulations caused many employees to voice their concerns about job security.
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Yet a feeling of coerciveness.
Academic text (1991) -
Coerciveness must thus be gauged not just from form but from patterns of selection and the manner in which exhortatives are embedded in EFP discourse.
Academic text (1995) -
These issues include evidence and rationale (What are the policy's principal goals, and are they acceptable?) ; intrusiveness and coerciveness (Can the objectives be achieved through less obtrusive means?) ; and affected third parties (Does the implementation interfere with relationships, e.g., between physicians and patients or employees and employers?).
Academic text (2012) -
The political climate was marked by coerciveness, as dissenters faced threats and pressure to conform.
Synonyms
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3.2
Use of influence by other people to make someone do something
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2.7
Treating someone weaker badly to control or frighten them
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6.5
Making someone scared by threats or pressure to stop them
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6.9
The act of making someone do something by using threats or violence
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7.9
Pressure by threats or force that makes someone act against their will
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6.5
Someone forces you to do something
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7.2
Using power to stop people's actions and feelings
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6.3
Strong pressure from someone to make you do something
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8.2
A strong, heavy feeling that makes people feel trapped or uncomfortable
Being overly controlling and not listening to others
How Coercive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word coerciveness comes from an old Latin word coercere meaning 'to restrain' or 'hold in'. So coerciveness is the quality of using 'force' or threats to make someone do something.