Definition of Compulsion

Noun

  • 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"
  • an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
    "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"
  • 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"
    - irresistible impulse
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Unscramble compulsion

474 unscramble word found using the letters compulsion.

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