compulsion
/kəmˈpʌlʃən/
noun
- A strong, often irresistible urge to do something.
- She felt a sudden compulsion to check her phone.
- The character in the story acted under a strange compulsion.
- He has a compulsion to organize everything on his desk.
- The act of forcing someone to do something; coercion.
- No one should be made to work under compulsion.
- The confession was obtained under compulsion, not voluntarily.
- The law forbids the use of compulsion in such cases.