Antonyms for compulsion
kəmˈpʌl ʃəncom·pul·sion

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1. compulsion

   Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Synonyms:
   destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. compulsionnoun

   Antonyms:
   persuasion, coaxing, alluring, inducing

   Synonyms:
   for, ce, restraint, control, coercion

Matched Categories

1. • Causing
   • Irrational Motive

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.8 / 5 votes

1. compulsion, irresistible impulsenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   irresistible impulse, coercion, obsession

2. compulsion, obsessionnoun

   an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

   "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"

   Synonyms:
   irresistible impulse, fixation, coercion, obsession

3. compulsion, coercionnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   irresistible impulse, coercion, obsession

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1. compulsionnoun

   Antonyms:
   discretion, spontaneity, volition, election, free-will

   Synonyms:
   constraint, coercion, obligation, coaction

How to use compulsion in a sentence?

1. Tim Martin:

   It's becoming increasingly obvious that people spend too much time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and struggle to control the compulsion, i don't believe that closing these accounts will affect our business whatsoever, and this is the overwhelming view of our pub managers.

2. John Milton:

   Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

3. Aristotle:

   All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

4. Dinesh D’Souza:

   Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

5. Lew Rockwell:

   Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

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