Compulsion in a sentence as a noun

What you're seeing is compulsion and addiction, not fun.

No real game has to focus on the compulsion to play - they just make the core game experience great so you come back.

"So, because he was under no compulsion to speak, his refusal to speak can be taken as a sign of guilt?

"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion.

That's why we have such a strong compulsion for it; if everyone else eats berries from that tree, it probably won't poison you.

The fact that they famously concentrate on "compulsion loops" and forming habits in their users tells you all you need to know.

Maybe I just have different priorities now, but I no longer feel any compulsion to upgrade.

Comparable to the late Iain M Banks in compulsion, imho, and half again as clever and witty.

In much the same way a Tourettes sufferer cannot control their compulsion to say inappropriate things.

The fact that the top phones have stayed at 600-700 for the past several years suggests that they are padding costs or simply have no compulsion to be efficient in their supply chains.

If you've read the entirety of the essay, he's saying that there has to be a balance between the needs of a job and the compulsion to have fun/showoff/be a hacker.

While I understand and sympathise with the compulsion to resist surveillance in this practical, technological way, I think it might be the wrong reaction to the information.

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

It's even possible to compete with wholly free services and provide supplemental classes in mathematics that families pay for willingly and without compulsion.

From the article: "Texas opposed the appeal, saying that the protection against compulsory self-incrimination is irrelevant when a suspect is under no compulsion to speak, as Salinas was because he was not under arrest and was speaking voluntarily.

Modern classification schemes are so arbitrary and error-prone as to be essentially just a painful way to satisfy scientists' compulsion to shove things into neat little cubbies and has the negative side-effect of scaring students away from an otherwise fascinating subject.

Compulsion definitions

noun

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"

noun

an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"

See also: obsession

noun

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"

See also: coercion