Crossword clues for compulsion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compulsion \Com*pul"sion\, n. [L. compulsio. See Compel.] The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would
give no man a reason upon compulsion.
--Shak.
With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low.
--Milton.
Syn: See Constraint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French compulsion, from Latin compulsionem (nominative compulsio) "a driving, urging," noun of action from past participle stem of compellere "compel" (see compel). Psychological sense is from 1909 in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Selected Papers on Hysteria," where German Zwangsneurose is rendered as compulsion neurosis.
Wiktionary
n. An irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
WordNet
n. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid [syn: irresistible impulse]
an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will [syn: obsession]
using force to cause something; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn`t have to use coercion" [syn: coercion]
Wikipedia
Compulsion was an Irish punk band. They formed in the 1990 by Josephmary (singer) and Sid Rainey (bassist) as Thee Amazing Colossal Men. They signed a recording contract with Virgin Records, but after winning a lawsuit against their record label, they became 'Compulsion' in 1992. Joined by guitarist Garret Lee and drummer Jan-Willem Alkema, they moved to North London and signed to One Little Indian. They released several EPs and two albums. The first, Comforter, was labelled by the NME as part of the " New Wave of New Wave", while the second, The Future is Medium, saw them sport identical black outfits and orange hairdos.
The group split in 1996, after which Lee formed Jacknife Lee, and later produced Snow Patrol and U2. Alkema joined China Drum and later Driven to Collision. Rainey is now a writer and has created and produced an animated children's TV series called Underground Ernie for the BBC. Josephmary now lives in Ireland.
Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck.
Although the principal roles are played by Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, top billing went to Orson Welles, who does not appear in the film's first hour.
Compulsion may refer to:
- Compulsive behavior, a psychological condition in which a person does a behavior compulsively, having an overwhelming feeling that they must do so.
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder, a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety and by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing that anxiety
Compulsion (2002) is a horror novel written by Shaun Hutson.
Compulsion!!!!! is the eighth jazz album by pianist Andrew Hill. It was originally released in 1966 under the Blue Note Label as BST 84217. It was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2006.
Compulsion is a 2013 Canadian psychological dark comedy film directed by Egidio Coccimiglio and starring Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon, and Joe Mantegna. The movie is based on the South Korean film 301, 302 directed by Park Chul-soo, which also serves as a remake. It focuses on two women occupying neighboring apartments, each one grappling with psychological disorders that begin to overtake their lives.
The movie opened for limited release on June 21, 2013.
Compulsion was a one-off ITV television drama, produced by Size 9 Productions and broadcast on 4 May 2009. Inspired by the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, it follows a young female Cambridge graduate called Anjika Indrani ( Parminder Nagra) and attempts by her father Satvick ( Vincent Ebrahim) to force her into a marriage with Hardik (Sargon Yelda) despite her existing happy relationship with Alex ( Ben Aldridge). It also starred Ray Winstone as Don Flowers, Satvick's chauffeur, and James Floyd as Jaiman.
It was originally scheduled to air in Christmas 2008, but was moved to the May Day 2009 date.
Usage examples of "compulsion".
And she has an overriding compulsion to seek Boolean with or without me.
He had hated the insistent compulsions from Carida, but now he was left alone with his own thoughts--noto one else inside his skull to taunt him, or to guide him.
The compulsion to go to the Carpathian Mountains and find a particular cave was very strong, urgent, and had been planted years earlier.
Constitution, in characteristic Confucian fashion, offers general principles of guidance for rule by moral suasion rather than compulsion, which requires detailed laws with specified punishments.
Certain people, we must keep in mind, have forgotten that to which, from the beginning onwards, their longing and effort are pointed: for all that exists desires and aspires towards the Supreme by a compulsion of nature, as if all had received the oracle that without it they cannot be.
I did so on compulsion, in spite of my love for Ignazia, for I had no longer hopes of doing anything in Portugal, and my purse was nearly exhausted.
Kellhus noted, lingered near his groin, as though strain-ing against some overpowering masturbatory compulsion.
Kellhus noted, lingered near his groin, as though straining against some overpowering masturbatory compulsion.
France out of that narrow Atlantic-coast strip but that put her in a position to become the power that should in a very true sense force the jealous, many-minded colonies of that strip into a union, make possible the erection of that feeble union into a nascent nation, give it, though under certain compulsion, territory to become a world-power, and finally furnish it, if grudgingly, with a great western, overmountain domain in which to develop a democratic and a nationalistic spirit strong enough to hold a continent-wide people in one republic.
But whereas the scientist simplifies by a process of analysis and isolation, the politician can only simplify by compulsion, by a Procrustean process of chopping and stretching designed to make the living organism conform to a certain easily understood and readily manipulated mechanical pattern.
He also talked a great deal about fair rents and the compulsion that farmers are under to pay anything that their landlords choose to ask.
Driven by the compulsions of his self-imposed destiny, he won many converts on his endless circuit of speechmaking across the country.
The will of the sorcerer might be aimed principally at Uruk, but some of his compulsion spilled into my mind, churned and obscured my thoughts.
The World State of the modern Utopist is no state of moral compulsions.
He killed seventeen women, he had never been gainfully employed for any extended period of time, he suffered from an array of addictions and compulsions, and he was never self-sufficient.