compulsion
noun
[ kəmˈpʌlʃ(ə)n ]
• the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.
• "the payment was made under compulsion"
Similar:
obligation,
constraint,
force,
coercion,
duress,
pressure,
pressurization,
enforcement,
oppression,
intimidation,
force majeure,
• an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way.
• "he felt a compulsion to babble on about what had happened"
Similar:
urge,
impulse,
need,
necessity,
desire,
longing,
motivation,
drive,
obsession,
fixation,
addiction,
temptation,
pull,
jones,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin compulsio(n- ), from compellere ‘to drive, force’ (see compel).
