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Definition of Compulsion
1. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Irrational Impulse
Derivative terms: Compulsive
2. Noun. An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will. "Her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"
Generic synonyms: Irrational Motive
Specialized synonyms: Onomatomania
Derivative terms: Compulsive, Compulsive, Obsessional
3. Noun. Using force to cause something to occur. "They didn't have to use coercion"
Generic synonyms: Causation, Causing
Specialized synonyms: Constructive Eviction, Eviction
Derivative terms: Coerce, Compel
Definition of Compulsion
1. n. The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
Definition of Compulsion
1. Noun. An irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences. ¹
2. Noun. The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act. ¹
3. Noun. The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compulsion
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Compulsion
1. Uncontrollable thoughts or impulses to perform an act, often repetitively, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas and desires which, by themselves, arouse anxiety; the anxiety becomes fully manifest if performance of the compulsive act is prevented; may be associated with obsessive thoughts. Origin: L. Com-pello pp. -pulsus, to drive together, compel (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulsion
Literary usage of Compulsion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Free School System of the United States by Francis Adams (1875)
"obtain any information respecting the working of compulsion in those States.
What is wanted in America to make compulsory laws thoroughly successful is a ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, the Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1880)
"I NOW proceed to distinguish physical compulsion or re- LECT straint from the
... Consequently, the compulsion or restraint which is implied in Duty or ..."
3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"oo "Done under compulsion" means that the cause 3 is external, the agent or
patient contributing nothing towards it; as, for instance, if he were carried ..."
4. Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916)
"That some compulsion to attend is necessary, in the case of a varying ...
To provide for the application of such compulsion almost all of our States have ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"It is very true, but this has nothing to do with compulsion. And the cause why
it was no sin, was this: they were ready to obey it, whensoever God should ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence: Being a Translation of the by Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Nathaniel Lindley Lindley (1855)
"MODES OF compulsion. 1. Extrajudicial, § 00. Offensive. ... 1 This is inserted
because Miiller ad Leyser Obs. 44., attributes no power of compulsion to ..."
7. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
""Now in this account we have the fact of a compulsion laid by the ... But this
compulsion was no other than the choice of obeying other statutes than God's. ..."
8. An Examination of the Nature of the State: A Study in Political Philosophy by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1896)
"First, those that do not admit of legal enforcement, ie of external compulsion;
and, secondly, those that, while possible of legal enforcement, ..."
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