• n.
    ⦿an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
    lexical concept
  • he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:compulsion
  2. enl:irresistible impulse
wn:interlingual indexili:i84891

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • compulsionirresistible impulse
  • irresistible impulse