compulsion
Meaning of compulsion
noun
- the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.
the payment was made under compulsion
- an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way.
he felt a compulsion to babble on about what had happened
late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin compulsio(n- ), from compellere ‘to drive, force’ (see compel).
Information about compulsion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of compulsion is: compulsions.
- Languages in which compulsion is used:
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Hyphenation of compulsion
com-pul-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- compulsion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
compulsion synonyms
Meaning obsession:
Meaning coercion:
Meaning an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment:
Meaning a limitation or restriction:
Meaning coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence:
Meaning threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing something against their will or better judgement:
Meaning the use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something:
Meaning the act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation:
Meaning prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority:
Meaning the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated:
Meaning a strong desire or impulse:
Meaning a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act:
Meaning circumstances in which something is necessary; necessity:
Meaning the state or fact of being required:
Meaning a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen:
Meaning a yearning desire:
Meaning a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way:
Meaning a trip or journey in a car:
Meaning an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something:
Meaning the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity:
Meaning the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise:
Meaning an act of pulling something:
Meaning a fixation on or compulsive desire for someone or something, typically a drug; an addiction:
Translation of compulsion
- French: pression, coercition
- Italian: coercizione
- Spanish: coacción
- German: Nötigung, Zwang
Words that rhyme with compulsion
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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