Urgency vs Compulsion - What's the difference?
urgency | compulsion | Related terms |
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 24
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC Sport
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 urgency and compulsion
is that urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion while compulsion is an irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.urgency
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(urgencies)citation, page= , passage=Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.}}
compulsion
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Noun
(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; […].}}
