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compulsion

English

  1. 🔊 using force to cause something to occur
    “though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game”
  2. 🔊 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”
  3. 🔊 an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
    “her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 compulsión compulsion

Similar words

coercion irresistible impulse obsession abstraction abulia alienation amperage anxiety anxiety equivalent anxiety state apathy armipotence authority beef black power brute force catatonic stupor charge charisma clout coercion cogence cogency complex