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Meaning of compulsion


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  compulsion
      n 1: 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" [syn: {compulsion}, {irresistible impulse}]
      2: an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive
         actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her
         hands repeatedly" [syn: {compulsion}, {obsession}]
      3: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into
         rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they
         didn't have to use coercion" [syn: {compulsion}, {coercion}]


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