LekhoriLekhoriAn irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
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