compulsion
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6.5
- noun
- /kəmˈpʌlʃən/
:
coacción
- As if under compulsion, she opened her mouth to ask exactly that.
- legal compulsion
- compulsion and force
- felt a compulsion
Are the chimps who use compulsion the most successful?
- Are the chimps who use compulsion the most successful?
- Then no one will ever be able to exert compulsion on you.
- If an earlier passage says no compulsion in religion, the Jews are not are there, they have their right to their thing.
Examples
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I declare with honesty without any fear and under no compulsion
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In the final analysis, the issue is freedom rather than equality under compulsion.
Academic text (2003) -
And I think that there is an element of compulsion to that.
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Are you going to use compulsion on Mia?
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Apparently this man never gave up, and I wondered at what seemed a deep compulsion in him.
Fiction book (1990) -
"You were under no compulsion to do as I asked," she said crisply.
Fiction book (1992) -
When you speak, you reveal a compulsion to take into yourself the qualities you admired in this girl.
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Over and over, as if acting under an irresistible compulsion, she relived that last day and night.
Fiction book (2000) -
What I'm against is the compulsion that restricts people's options to use cash when it's the most convenient payment mechanism for them.
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Many students felt a compulsion to study harder after seeing their grades drop.
Synonyms
56
6.9
The act of making someone do something by using threats or violence
22
4.6
A thing that stops or controls movement to keep people and machines safe
Antonyms
How Forced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word compulsion comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and pel 'to push' and shares the root with compel, which means 'to force'. So compulsion can also mean being 'pushed' or forced by others or by rules to do something.