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compulsion
noun
1 compulsion
An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid:
— He felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident.
synonym: irresistible impulse.
Roget 601:
involuntariness;
instinct,
blind impulse;
inborn proclivity,
innate proclivity;
native tendency,
natural tendency;
natural impulse,
predetermination.
necessity,
necessitation;
obligation;
compulsion
etc.
744;
subjection
etc.
749;
stern necessity,
hard necessity,
dire necessity,
imperious necessity,
inexorable necessity,
iron necessity,
adverse necessity;
fate;
what must be.
destiny,
destination;
fatality,
fate,
kismet,
doom,
foredoom,
election,
predestination;
preordination,
foreordination;
lot fortune;
fatalism;
inevitableness
etc.
adj.;
spell
etc.
993.
star,
stars;
planet,
planets;
astral influence;
sky,
Fates,
Parcae,
Sisters three,
book of fate;
God's will,
will of Heaven;
wheel of Fortune,
Ides of March,
Hobson's choice.
last shift,
last resort;
dernier ressort [Fr.];
pis aller
etc.
(substitute)
147 [Fr.];
necessaries
etc.
(requirement)
630.
necessarian†,
necessitarian†;
fatalist;
automaton.
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2 compulsion
An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will:
— Her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly.
synonym: obsession.
Dutch: drang, dwang
3 compulsion
Using force to cause something to occur:
— Though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game.
synonym: coercion.
Roget 744:
compulsion,
coercion,
coaction†,
constraint,
duress,
enforcement,
press,
conscription.
force;
brute force,
main force,
physical force;
the sword,
ultima ratio [Lat.];
club law,
lynch law,
mob law,
arguementum baculinum†,
le droit du plus fort [Fr.],
martial law.
restraint
etc.
751;
necessity
etc.
601;
force majeure [Fr.];
Hobson's choice.
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Dutch: drukmiddel, dwangmiddel, pressiemiddel
Polish: wydalenie
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