Forced vs Coercion - What's the difference?
forced | coercion |
(force)
obtained forcefully, not naturally
opened or accessed using force
(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.
As a verb forced
is (force).As an adjective forced
is obtained forcefully, not naturally.As a noun coercion is
(not countable) actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce|coercing.forced
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Her forced smile was harder and harder to keep as her critical father kept on complaining about her.