compulsion
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A repetitive act a person feels driven to perform to relieve anxiety.
His compulsion to check the locks repeatedly made it hard for him to leave the house.
Law noun
Irresistible pressure or coercion sometimes raised to negate the voluntariness of a criminal act.
He claimed he had acted under compulsion, driven by threats made against his family.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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