All compulsion synonyms
com·pul·sion
C c noun compulsion
- coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
- obsession — the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
- urgency — urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.
- preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- driving — noting or pertaining to a part of a machine or vehicle used for its propulsion.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- prepossession — the state of being prepossessed.
- hang-up — a preoccupation, fixation, or psychological block; complex: His hang-up is trying to outdo his brother.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
- duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
- impulse — the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.: to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.
- desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- craving — an intense desire or longing