Exact Match:
- compulsiveness
- the trait of acting compulsively
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- enforcement
collapse - the act of enforcing; insuring observance of or obedience to related words >
- action and reaction,
- answer,
- automatic reaction,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- autonomic reaction,
- blind impulse,
- bounceback,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- echo,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- impulse,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- predictable response,
- reaction,
- reflection,
- reflex,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- reply,
- respondence,
- response,
- retroaction,
- return,
- reverberation,
- revulsion,
- rise,
- sheer chemistry,
- unthinking response,
- unwilledness
- archetypal pattern,
- archetype,
- automatic response,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- brain wave,
- brainstorm,
- collective unconscious,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- drive,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- fancy,
- flash,
- fleeting impulse,
- gut response,
- id,
- impulse,
- inborn proclivity,
- inspiration,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- involuntary impulse,
- libido,
- natural impulse,
- natural instinct,
- natural tendency,
- notion,
- primitive self,
- quick hunch,
- reflex,
- reflex action,
- sheer chemistry,
- subconscious urge,
- sudden thought,
- unlearned capacity,
- unreasoning impulse,
- unwilledness,
- urge,
- vital impulse
- automatism
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- any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) related words >
- Ouija,
- automatic control,
- automatic writing,
- automation,
- automatization,
- bad habit,
- blind impulse,
- characteristic,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- creature of habit,
- custom,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- force of habit,
- habit,
- habit pattern,
- habitude,
- impulse,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- levitation,
- materialization,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- planchette,
- poltergeist,
- poltergeistism,
- practice,
- praxis,
- psychography,
- psychorrhagy,
- reflex action,
- second nature,
- self-action,
- self-activity,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-government,
- self-motion,
- self-propulsion,
- self-regulation,
- sheer chemistry,
- spirit manifestation,
- spirit rapping,
- stereotype,
- stereotyped behavior,
- table tipping,
- telekinesis,
- teleportation,
- telesthesia,
- trance speaking,
- trick,
- unwilledness,
- usage,
- use,
- way,
- wont
- Ouija,
- artistry,
- authorcraft,
- authorship,
- automatism,
- blind impulse,
- cacoethes scribendi,
- composition,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- creative writing,
- drama-writing,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- editorial-writing,
- essay-writing,
- expository writing,
- facility in writing,
- feature-writing,
- graphomania,
- graphorrhea,
- graphospasm,
- impulse,
- inditement,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- journalism,
- levitation,
- libretto-writing,
- literary artistry,
- literary composition,
- literary power,
- literary production,
- literary talent,
- materialization,
- novel-writing,
- pen,
- pencraft,
- planchette,
- playwriting,
- poltergeist,
- poltergeistism,
- psychography,
- psychorrhagy,
- ready pen,
- reflex action,
- rewriting,
- sheer chemistry,
- short-story writing,
- skill with words,
- spirit manifestation,
- spirit rapping,
- table tipping,
- technical writing,
- telekinesis,
- teleportation,
- telesthesia,
- trance speaking,
- unwilledness,
- verse-writing,
- writing
- impulse
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- the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over" related words >
- actuation,
- archetypal pattern,
- archetype,
- atomic power,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- blind impulse,
- catalyst,
- collective unconscious,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- constraint,
- drive,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- electric power,
- electropower,
- excitant,
- exigency,
- forwardness,
- goad,
- haste,
- hastiness,
- horsepower,
- hydraulic power,
- hydroelectric power,
- id,
- impetus,
- impulsion,
- impulsiveness,
- inborn proclivity,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- jet power,
- libido,
- lust,
- manpower,
- motivation,
- natural instinct,
- natural tendency,
- nuclear power,
- overhastiness,
- passion,
- pinch,
- piston power,
- precipitation,
- precociousness,
- precocity,
- prematureness,
- prematurity,
- press,
- pressure,
- primitive self,
- propulsion,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- reflex action,
- rocket power,
- rush,
- sheer chemistry,
- solar power,
- spur,
- steam power,
- stimulant,
- stress,
- subconscious urge,
- thermonuclear power,
- thrust,
- unlearned capacity,
- unreasoning impulse,
- untimeliness,
- unwilledness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- vital impulse,
- water power
- inevitability
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- the quality of being unavoidable related words >
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- appointed lot,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- book of fate,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- coaction,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- constellation,
- constraint,
- cup,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- destination,
- destiny,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- dies funestis,
- doom,
- end,
- enforcement,
- fatality,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forcing,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- future,
- ides of March,
- indefeasibility,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- irresistibility,
- irrevocability,
- kismet,
- lot,
- moira,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- planets,
- portion,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- restraint,
- stars,
- sureness,
- surety,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unlucky day,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven
- conditioning
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- a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment related words >
- Pavlovian conditioning,
- absorption and regurgitation,
- acclimation,
- acclimatization,
- accommodation,
- accustoming,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- addictive,
- adjustment,
- apprenticeship,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- basic training,
- behavior,
- blind impulse,
- brainwashing,
- breaking,
- breaking-in,
- breeding,
- case hardening,
- catechization,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioned response,
- cultivation,
- development,
- dictation,
- discipline,
- domestication,
- drill,
- drilling,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- enablement,
- equipment,
- exercise,
- familiarization,
- fetching-up,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fostering,
- furnishing,
- grooming,
- habit-forming,
- habituating,
- habituation,
- hard,
- hardening,
- housebreaking,
- imbuement,
- implantation,
- impregnation,
- impression,
- improvement,
- impulse,
- in-service training,
- inculcation,
- indoctrination,
- infixation,
- infixion,
- infusion,
- inoculation,
- instillation,
- instillment,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- instrumental conditioning,
- inurement,
- involuntariness,
- manual training,
- military training,
- naturalization,
- negative reinforcement,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- on-the-job training,
- operant conditioning,
- orientation,
- physiologically addictive,
- positive reinforcement,
- practice,
- preparation,
- psychagogy,
- psychologically addictive,
- qualification,
- raising,
- readying,
- rearing,
- reeducation,
- reflex,
- reflex action,
- rehearsal,
- reindoctrination,
- reinforcement,
- reorientation,
- seasoning,
- sheer chemistry,
- sloyd,
- taming,
- training,
- tuning,
- unconditioned reflex,
- unwilledness,
- upbringing,
- vocational education,
- vocational training
- necessity
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- anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
- the condition of being essential or indispensable related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- call,
- call for,
- cause,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- coaction,
- coercion,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- condition,
- constraint,
- dead certainty,
- decree,
- definiteness,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- destitution,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- duress,
- empty purse,
- enforcement,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exigency,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forcing,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowledge,
- foreordination,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impoverishment,
- indefeasibility,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- indispensableness,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- irresistibility,
- irrevocability,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- need,
- need for,
- needfulness,
- neediness,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- occasion,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- preordination,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- prescience,
- privation,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisiteness,
- requisition,
- restraint,
- sine qua non,
- sureness,
- surety,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major,
- want
- instinct
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- inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals" related words >
- a thing for,
- ability,
- affinity,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- archetypal pattern,
- archetype,
- automatic response,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- bent,
- bias,
- blind impulse,
- brain wave,
- brainstorm,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cast,
- collective unconscious,
- compulsiveness,
- conatus,
- conditioning,
- conduciveness,
- delight,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- dower,
- dowry,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- empathy,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- faculty,
- fancy,
- feel,
- feeling,
- feeling for,
- flair,
- flash,
- fleeting impulse,
- forte,
- genius,
- gift,
- gut response,
- id,
- impulse,
- inborn proclivity,
- inclination,
- inspiration,
- instinctiveness,
- intuition,
- involuntariness,
- involuntary impulse,
- knack,
- leaning,
- liability,
- libido,
- liking,
- long suit,
- makings,
- metier,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- natural impulse,
- natural instinct,
- natural tendency,
- notion,
- parts,
- penchant,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- prejudice,
- primitive self,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- qualification,
- quick hunch,
- readiness,
- reflex,
- reflex action,
- sensitivity,
- sensitivity to,
- sheer chemistry,
- sixth sense,
- skill,
- soft spot,
- speciality,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- subconscious,
- subconscious urge,
- sudden thought,
- susceptibility,
- talent,
- talents,
- tendency,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- tropism,
- turn,
- twist,
- unlearned capacity,
- unreasoning impulse,
- unwilledness,
- urge,
- vital impulse,
- warp,
- weakness,
- what it takes,
- willingness
- constraint
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- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint" related words >
- abnegation,
- abstinence,
- aloofness,
- aplomb,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- blankness,
- caging,
- calm,
- calmness,
- check,
- chilliness,
- circumscription,
- coaction,
- coercion,
- coldness,
- composure,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- confinement,
- conservatism,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- coolness,
- cramp,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- deceleration,
- denial,
- detachment,
- discipline,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dispassion,
- distance,
- drive,
- driving,
- duress,
- enforcement,
- evenness,
- exigency,
- expressionlessness,
- forbearance,
- forcing,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- frugality,
- gentleness,
- goad,
- golden mean,
- guardedness,
- happy medium,
- hindrance,
- iciness,
- impartiality,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impelling,
- impersonality,
- impoundment,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- inaccessibility,
- independence,
- inevitability,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- introversion,
- irresistibility,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- legal restraint,
- lenity,
- lockup,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- modesty,
- monopoly,
- motive,
- necessity,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- pacifism,
- penning,
- pinch,
- possession,
- press,
- pressure,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- prudence,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- rationing,
- rein,
- remoteness,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- retiring disposition,
- retrenchment,
- self-abnegation,
- self-command,
- self-conquest,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-government,
- self-mastery,
- self-possession,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- slowing down,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- spring,
- spur,
- stability,
- standoffishness,
- steadiness,
- stress,
- subduedness,
- suppression,
- tariff wall,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thought control,
- tranquillity,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexcessiveness,
- unexpansiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- via media,
- violence,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness
- obligation
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- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something; "he is under an obligation to finish the job" related words >
- accountability,
- accounts payable,
- accounts receivable,
- act of grace,
- act of kindness,
- affair,
- agreement,
- allegiance,
- amount due,
- appreciation,
- appreciativeness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- arrearage,
- assigned task,
- attempt,
- bad debts,
- benefaction,
- benefit,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- bill,
- bills,
- blessing,
- bond,
- borrowing,
- boundary condition,
- bounden duty,
- burden,
- business,
- call,
- call of duty,
- catch,
- cause,
- chance,
- charge,
- charges,
- chits,
- clause,
- coaction,
- commitment,
- committal,
- compulsatory,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- compulsoriness,
- compulsory,
- condition,
- constraint,
- contingency,
- contract,
- courtesy,
- covenant,
- deal,
- debt,
- dedication,
- deference,
- demand,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- donnee,
- due,
- dues,
- duress,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- effort,
- enforcement,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- ethics,
- eventuality,
- favor,
- fealty,
- financial commitment,
- fine print,
- floating debt,
- forcing,
- funded debt,
- given,
- good deed,
- good offices,
- good turn,
- grace,
- gratefulness,
- gratitude,
- grounds,
- homage,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- indebtedness,
- indebtment,
- inevitability,
- irresistibility,
- joker,
- kicker,
- kind deed,
- kind offices,
- kindly act,
- kindness,
- labor of love,
- liability,
- liableness,
- likelihood,
- likeliness,
- limiting condition,
- line of duty,
- loyalty,
- mandatedness,
- mandatoriness,
- maturity,
- mercy,
- mission,
- mitzvah,
- must,
- national debt,
- necessariness,
- necessitation,
- necessitude,
- necessity,
- need,
- obligatoriness,
- obligatory,
- obligement,
- office,
- onus,
- operation,
- ought,
- outstanding debt,
- parameter,
- part,
- place,
- plan,
- pledge,
- possibility,
- preengagement,
- prerequisite,
- probability,
- program,
- project,
- promise,
- proneness,
- proposition,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- public debt,
- recognizance,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- restraint,
- right,
- saving clause,
- score,
- self-imposed duty,
- sense of obligation,
- service,
- sine qua non,
- small print,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- string,
- task,
- terms,
- thankfulness,
- trust,
- turn,
- ultimatum,
- uncollectibles,
- understanding,
- undertaking,
- unfulfilled pledge,
- venture,
- verbal agreement,
- weakness,
- whereas,
- work
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