Definition of Compulsions

1. Noun. (plural of compulsion) ¹

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Definition of Compulsions

1. compulsion [n] - See also: compulsion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulsions

comptrol
comptroller
comptrollers
comptrollership
comptrollerships
comptrolling
comptrols
compts
compulsative
compulsatively
compulsatory
compulse
compulsed
compulses
compulsion
compulsions (current term)
compulsive
compulsive behaviour
compulsive idea
compulsive neurosis
compulsive personality
compulsive personality disorder
compulsively
compulsiveness
compulsives
compulsivities
compulsivity
compulsories
compulsorily
compulsoriness

Literary usage of Compulsions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg (2003)
"Our inner nature cannot be cleansed from compulsions to evil as long as the ... [2] Now, since compulsions combine with their deviousness to make up the ..."

2. Value of Psychiatric Treatment: Its Efficacy in Severe Mental Disorders edited by Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"1984), the effect size for improvement in obsessions rated by an assessor was found to be 2.42, compared to an effect size of 2.39 for compulsions, ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"Impressments and compulsions are unchangeable elements which we can analyze but never transform. They become parts of thought-processes and thus create ..."

4. The Negro Question by George Washington Cable (1898)
"Therefore, no compulsions. But the land is full of compulsions. ... Before we buy or hire one ship, whether these compulsions are in South Carolina or ..."

5. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"But such an atmosphere constitutes a paradise for the compulsion-neurotic because he finds it easy to impose his compulsions upon the rest of society. ..."

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