What's the difference between compulsion and compulsory?

Compulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (2) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (3) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (4) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
  • (5) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
  • (6) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
  • (7) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
  • (8) This suggests that the locomotor stimulation induced by amphetamine involves central norepinephrine, while dopamine neurons play an important role in the induced compulsive gnawing behavior.
  • (9) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
  • (10) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
  • (11) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • (12) A young adolescent girl (13.5 years old) with a compulsive eating disorder and gross obesity was treated with a combination of behavior therapy and fenfluramine (Ponderax).
  • (13) The four most frequently identified personality disorders were avoidance 26.7%, paranoia 21.3%, self-defeating 19.1%, and obsessive-compulsive 17.1%.
  • (14) In both samples patients with blood type A scored significantly higher than those with type O on the 'Obsessive-Compulsive' and 'Psychoticism' factors.
  • (15) But at some point I realized that it's precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil.
  • (16) Five patients (14 per cent) improved dramatically; in retrospect, four of these five patients suffered from nonremitting forms of manic-depressive illness, and the fifth patient suffered from a severe obsessive compulsive neurosis.
  • (17) Improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms did not correlate significantly with plasma concentrations of the drug or its metabolites.
  • (18) The authors present a case of coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar affective disorder in which the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared during episodes of mania and reappeared during periods of depression.
  • (19) Social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder comprised those patients with similar qualities to each other in terms of their demographic data and their social backgrounds, forming a distinct group apparently different from the panic-generalized anxiety group.
  • (20) And customers and governments need to give up their compulsive throw-away habits and embrace the take-back economy.

Compulsory


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
  • (a.) Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
  • (2) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
  • (3) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (4) The results are most consistent with a general non-compulsory model for the formation of a ternary complex between carrier, phenylalanine molecule and a sodium ion, which can be formed from either binary complex, i.e., either species can combine first to the carrier.
  • (5) Revenue from the tax will be used to increase compulsory pension payments from 9% to 12%.
  • (6) Of these patients 90 had to be jugded by a court commission with regard to further compulsory hospitalization.
  • (7) Both alcohol oxidation and acetaldehyde reduction follow a compulsory ordered pathway, with coenzyme binding first.
  • (8) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
  • (9) Compulsory national testing for four- and five-year-olds in England from 2016 is to be introduced as part of sweeping changes being proposed to early years and primary education.
  • (10) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
  • (11) The scheme comes ahead of government plans to make such referrals compulsory after criticism that Britain’s biggest banks are failing to provide sufficient credit to a sector the government sees as having an important role in stimulating the economy.
  • (12) Both groups agreed over most points, except on the desirability of compulsory vocational training: 42 of the trainees thought this to be desirable compared with 35 of the teachers.The composite scheme favoured by both trainees and teachers offered an initial period in general practice together with an organized course of seminars throughout the training period.
  • (13) Its role in reversing the compulsory rotation at the beginning of flexion can now easily be explained: since it is an extensor, the flexion would cause its passive elongation, against which its mere tonus causes rotation.
  • (14) They were selected by a method to form a representative sample of all West Jerusalem compulsory kindergarten classes in 1971.
  • (15) In regard to therapy, the authors believe that surgery is compulsory for patients showing clinical signs of upper airway obstruction despite suppressive therapy or when the lesion shows signs of malignant degeneration.
  • (16) These standards must be strengthened and made compulsory before targets are raised any further.
  • (17) In order to contribute to the discussion of compulsory vaccinations a brief review of those vaccines that have been extensively used so far is presented.
  • (18) The onset of smoking in the oldest male group in this rural area occurred in the first years after the war (first land confiscation) while in the group from 70 to 74 years of age it occurred in the years of compulsory crop-purchase system.
  • (19) Most hospitals in California were found to provide continuing education opportunities for physical therapists, but physical therapists in small hospitals and in private-profit hospitals could be at a disadvantage financially if continuing education becomes compulsory for relicensure.
  • (20) Very low levels of protection were detected, regarding both compulsory and optional vaccines as well as antimalarial protection.