Compulsion (1959) - IMDb Compulsion: Directed by Richard Fleischer With Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case
APA Dictionary of Psychology Typically, the individual feels driven or compelled to perform the compulsion to reduce the distress associated with an obsession or to prevent a dreaded event or situation
compulsion - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Noun compulsion (countable and uncountable, plural compulsions) An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences
compulsion - WordReference. com Dictionary of English [uncountable] the act of compelling or the state of being compelled Psychiatry [countable] a strong, irresistible impulse to perform an act, esp one that is irrational or contrary to one's will See -puls- com•pul•sion (kəm pul′ shən), n coercion the state or condition of being compelled
compulsion noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of compulsion noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [uncountable, countable] (formal) strong pressure that makes somebody do something that they do not want to do compulsion (to do something) You are under no compulsion to pay immediately