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compulsion
 
Noun compulsion has 3 senses
  1. compulsion, irresistible impulse - an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
    --1 is a kind of irrational impulse
  2. compulsion, obsession - an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
    --2 is a kind of irrational motive
    --2 has particulars: onomatomania
  3. compulsion, coercion - using force to cause something; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn`t have to use coercion"
    --3 is a kind of causing, causation
    --3 has particulars: eviction, constructive eviction
    Derived form: verb compel1
compuction compul compulation compule compulisive compulisve compulsary compulsery compulsion compulsions compulsive compulsive about compulsively compulsiveness compulsivity compulsorily compulsory

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