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compulsioncom‧pul‧sion /kəmˈpʌlʃən/ noun   compulsionOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French, Late Latin compulsio, from Latin compellere; ➔ COMPEL - Compulsion is not the answer to get kids to perform better in school.
- He felt a sudden compulsion to laugh out loud.
- People may develop compulsions such as excessive cleaning or counting.
- The patient had a compulsion that caused him to wash his hands 20 or 30 times a day.
- But she also felt a compulsion to talk to Louise.
- Here,... we are dealing with a compulsion of students to declare a belief.
- It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.
- No compulsion would have been necessary.
- The compulsion to return may be strong, but the obstacles are huge.
- The bad was the pervasive and inevitable corruption of morals and manners that accompanied such a compulsion for the luxurious.
- There is no compulsion on the farmer to provide education at all.
a feeling that you want to do or have something► desire especially written a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wanting to do something, especially something important, which makes you try very hard to have it or do it: desire to do something: · Young children have a keen desire to learn and succeed.desire for: · After so many years of war, there was a great desire for peace.a strong/keen/burning desire: · Young Peryoux left home for Paris, armed with a guitar, and a burning desire to succeed. ► wish formal something that you want to happen, especially when this is very important to you: · His last wish was that his body should be buried in his home town.somebody's dearest/greatest wish (=the thing they want most of all): · She always wanted to see her grandchildren again - it was her dearest wish. ► longing/yearning a very strong and long-lasting desire for something that you are unlikely to get - used especially in stories and literature: longing/yearning for: · She felt a great longing for the sights, sounds and smells of home.· The story gives a sensitive account of Paul's innocent yearning for love and affection.longing/yearning to do something: · At 18 I had a strong yearning to leave my small town, and see the world. ► craving a very strong and uncontrollable desire to have something that you think about all the time, especially food, attention, or a drug: · After a week without smoking, the craving began to disappear.craving for: · The symptoms include a craving for sweet foods. ► lust a very strong desire to have something, such as money or power, that can make you do evil things to get what you want: lust for: · Throughout his career he was motivated by a lust for power.· Her lust for money is insatiable. ► appetite a strong desire to have something regularly or do something regularly: appetite for: · He has a tremendous appetite for hard work.insatiable appetite (=extremely strong appetite): · The public has an insatiable appetite for scandal and political controversy.whet somebody's appetite (=make it stronger): · The dangers of the climb up Mt. Washington only whetted our appetite for more adventure. ► temptation a strong desire to do something, even though you know it is wrong, dangerous, unnecessary etc: temptation to do something: · There is always a temptation to blame others for your own problems.resist the temptation (=not do something, even though you want to): · Resist the temptation to get involved. After all, it's not your problem.give in to temptation (=to do something, after trying not to): · In the end, he gave in to temptation, and lit his first cigarette in five days. ► compulsion an extremely strong desire, usually an unreasonable one, that is difficult or impossible to control: · The patient had a compulsion that caused him to wash his hands 20 or 30 times a day.compulsion to do something: · He felt a sudden compulsion to laugh out loud. VERB► feel· But she also felt a compulsion to talk to Louise.· McClellan felt no compulsion to press into Virginia after Lee.· When he was around I felt no compulsion to bind myself to people in this terrible, demanding way.· It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.· So long as the possibility remained that nothing would happen they felt no compulsion to educate themselves.· Do we now feel a compulsion to believe things again?· I feel a compulsion to accept Belinda as my own now.· As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock's trench. 1[countable] a strong and unreasonable desire to do something → compel:  The desire to laugh became a compulsion.compulsion to do something Leith felt an overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth. the compulsion to smoke or eat too much2[singular, uncountable] the act of forcing or influencing someone to do something they do not want to do → compelunder (no) compulsion to do something Owners are under no compulsion to sell their land. The use of compulsion in psychiatric care cannot be justified. |