Compulsion
noun
A very strong desire to do something that is hard to control or stop.
She felt a compulsion to confess her affair.
Often appears as...
- feel a compulsion
- under compulsion
noun
A force that makes you do something.
The defendants proved that they were acting under compulsion.
Often appears as...
- act under compulsion
- legal compulsion
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Technical
noun
A repetitive and irresistible urge to carry out certain acts.
Compulsion is one of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Often appears as...
- obsessive compulsion
- compulsive behavior
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Technical
noun
A very strong desire to do something that is hard to control or stop.
She felt a compulsion to confess her affair.
Often appears as...
- feel a compulsion
- under compulsion
noun
A force that makes you do something.
The defendants proved that they were acting under compulsion.
Often appears as...
- act under compulsion
- legal compulsion
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A repetitive and irresistible urge to carry out certain acts.
Compulsion is one of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Often appears as...
- obsessive compulsion
- compulsive behavior
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Irresistible Urge
Compulsion refers to strong, almost uncontrollable desires to act, often against one's conscious wishes.
Despite his diet, he felt a compulsion to eat the entire chocolate cake.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Intensity
Expresses a deep emotional struggle, highlighting the internal battle against one's urges.
She fought the compulsion to check her phone every minute.
Pro Tip 1/2Irresistible Urge
Compulsion refers to strong, almost uncontrollable desires to act, often against one's conscious wishes.
Despite his diet, he felt a compulsion to eat the entire chocolate cake.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Intensity
Expresses a deep emotional struggle, highlighting the internal battle against one's urges.
She fought the compulsion to check her phone every minute.
Pro Tip 1/2Irresistible Urge
Compulsion refers to strong, almost uncontrollable desires to act, often against one's conscious wishes.
Despite his diet, he felt a compulsion to eat the entire chocolate cake.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Intensity
Expresses a deep emotional struggle, highlighting the internal battle against one's urges.
She fought the compulsion to check her phone every minute.
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A brief history of...
or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us is a compulsion difficult to suppress.
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Life lessons from an ad...
As an advertising man, I have to admire that. But the first thing is that all value is subjective. Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion. These funny signs that flash your speed at you, some of the new ones, on the bottom right, now actually show a smiley face or a frowny face,
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What are 100 MILLION...
because although her far distant ancestors came from the sea she herself is a land and she can't swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure the drug but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is
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Debunking the myths of...
As its name suggests, obsessive compulsive disorder has two the intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses, known as obsessions, and the behavioral compulsions people engage in to relieve the anxiety the obsessions cause.
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
which The tendency of the organization or the institution is to deploy as much force as possible, as much compulsion as possible, whereas actually, the tendency of the person is to be almost influenced
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Bryce Dallas Howard: How...
This new compulsion toward self-exposure is possibly the biggest social experiment in history. We're making life-altering decisions about our personal boundaries with no guidance and no precedent.
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My quest to defy gravity...
or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in. I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion,
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Aquatic Animals Take To...
swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure her to drown but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is irresistible and when at length she does
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Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
so I'm gonna drive a few roads where I know that she has been spending kind of a lot of her time in general it's a compulsion just about anywhere but it's
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Barbara Natterson-Horowit...
even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury. Now, I've got a confession to make.
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A brief history of...
or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us is a compulsion difficult to suppress.
Video examples
Life lessons from an ad...
As an advertising man, I have to admire that. But the first thing is that all value is subjective. Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion. These funny signs that flash your speed at you, some of the new ones, on the bottom right, now actually show a smiley face or a frowny face,
Video examples
What are 100 MILLION...
because although her far distant ancestors came from the sea she herself is a land and she can't swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure the drug but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is
Video examples
Debunking the myths of...
As its name suggests, obsessive compulsive disorder has two the intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses, known as obsessions, and the behavioral compulsions people engage in to relieve the anxiety the obsessions cause.
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
which The tendency of the organization or the institution is to deploy as much force as possible, as much compulsion as possible, whereas actually, the tendency of the person is to be almost influenced
Video examples
Bryce Dallas Howard: How...
This new compulsion toward self-exposure is possibly the biggest social experiment in history. We're making life-altering decisions about our personal boundaries with no guidance and no precedent.
Video examples
My quest to defy gravity...
or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in. I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion,
Video examples
Aquatic Animals Take To...
swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure her to drown but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is irresistible and when at length she does
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
so I'm gonna drive a few roads where I know that she has been spending kind of a lot of her time in general it's a compulsion just about anywhere but it's
Video examples
Barbara Natterson-Horowit...
even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury. Now, I've got a confession to make.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
American Novelist
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
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Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
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Jon Krakauer
American Writer
I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.
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Tom Wolfe
American Journalist
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.
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John Dos Passos
American Novelist
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Juliana Hatfield
American Musician
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
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Jon Richardson
English Comedian
I've had a lot of compulsions throughout my life which mainly started as a teen around the time I was doing exams.
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Robert Atkins
American Celebrity
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
American Novelist
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
Quote examples
Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
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Jon Krakauer
American Writer
I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.
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Tom Wolfe
American Journalist
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.
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John Dos Passos
American Novelist
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Juliana Hatfield
American Musician
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
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Jon Richardson
English Comedian
I've had a lot of compulsions throughout my life which mainly started as a teen around the time I was doing exams.
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Robert Atkins
American Celebrity
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
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