Obligingness vs Compulsion - What's the difference?
obligingness | compulsion |
The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
An irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
As nouns the difference between obligingness and compulsion
is that obligingness is the quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others while compulsion is obsession.obligingness
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(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}