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Compelling vs Categorical - What's the difference?

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Compelling is a related term of categorical.


As adjectives the difference between compelling and categorical

is that compelling is requiring urgent attention while categorical is absolute; having no exception.

As a verb compelling

is .

As a noun categorical is

(logic) a categorical proposition.

compelling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Requiring urgent attention.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.}}
  • Forceful.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.}}

    categorical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • absolute; having no exception
  • * '>citation
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
  • Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
  • of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories
  • Synonyms

    * absolute, categoric, unconditional

    Antonyms

    * exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

    Derived terms

    * acategorical * categorical imperative * categoricalness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A categorical proposition.