compulsion
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6.7
- noun
- /kəmˈpʌlʃən/
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compulsión
- She felt a strong compulsion to finish the book in one sitting.
- feel a compulsion
- compulsion to repeat
- inner compulsion
So it's like there's this compulsion to succeed.
- So it's like there's this compulsion to succeed.
- There is, it asked, a compulsion to rake or fashion stanzas.
- That drive, that compulsion that we feel is the trigger.
- Obviously that's the O in OCD, compulsions, the actions, that's the C in OCD.
- But he's now starting to have fits and compulsions, right?
- So the the question I have for you is, is the repetition compulsion a real thing?
- So understand that you are always going to have the compulsion to be lazy.
- I just was existing in the day and and bowing to my compulsions.
- Some people have superstitions that border on or even become compulsions.
- So there are different kinds of obsessions and compulsions.
- It manifests itself as an irresistible compulsion.
- You're eating more by compulsion of liking the taste or simply by compulsion of filling yourself up.
Examples
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So it's like there's this compulsion to succeed.
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But for one young female, the compulsion to eat is more than she can bear.
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So it's like never like this compulsion for me to go out.
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It's just a weird compulsion we have to make up.
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It's like I got a compulsion or something.
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I understand your compulsion even less than you understand mine.
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For several weeks she had left them, but the compulsion did not go away.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I was also driven by this compulsion to see how good I could be.
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That drive, that compulsion that we feel is the trigger.
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So understand that you are always going to have the compulsion to be lazy.
Synonyms
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1.6
A strong wish to have or experience something
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2.7
A reason or desire that makes someone want to do something
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3.2
A strong desire to do something
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3.8
A strong wish to do something, often something you should not do
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3.4
A strong desire or energy to do something
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3.6
A sudden strong want to do something without thinking
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3.7
A very strong desire for things like food or cigarettes
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6.6
A strong wish to have or do something
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7.5
A strong desire for something
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7.9
A sudden strong desire to do something you cannot control
A strong wish to have or try something
A strong desire to get or achieve something
Antonyms
How Compulsive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word compulsion comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and pel 'to push', and it is like the word impulse, which is an inner 'push'. So a compulsion is a very strong, hard-to-control 'push' inside you that makes you act.