compulsion

IPA: kʌmpˈʌɫʃʌn

An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).

Examples of "compulsion" in Sentences

Executing the compulsion provides temporary relief.
The marked practice is the compulsion to vary wording.
Because I realize that the compulsion is almost irresistable.
There is in the operation of the market no compulsion and coercion.
Among the characteristics of alcoholism are compulsion and addiction.
Spot on where the distinction between a new ‘right’ and a compulsion is concerned.
Of any thing worth having, compulsion is a most unsuitable instrument for conveying it to mankind.
You fail to appreciate that our President is under compulsion from a higher authority than even our Holy Constition.
But that their realization requires compulsion, and _compulsion in the form of a dictatorship_, is ordinarily not comprehended.
But Faust cannot turn away from the awful figure of his lost love, and his compulsion is the sign that he has not abandoned his inspiration.
The compulsion is just that, an involuntary urge which has nothing to do with choice: a deep, sometimes desperate need to order the universe, usually as an anxiety reaction, which sometimes comes to rule the person's life.
So the learning process, that interaction between humans and between us and our environment, that complicated psychological and cultural practice, that dance of motivation and compulsion, is being handcuffed into narrow moments of transmission -- the downloading of facts.