Coercion vs Oppression - What's the difference?
coercion | oppression |
(not countable) Actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce, coercing.
(legal, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
(countable) A specific instance of coercing.
(computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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As nouns the difference between coercion and oppression
is that coercion is actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing while oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.coercion
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- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
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