different between compulsion vs cacoethes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsi?, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?m-p?l'sh?n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?p?l.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?p?l.??n/

Noun

compulsion (countable and uncountable, plural compulsions)

1. An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.

2. The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
   • 2016 January 17, "Wealthy cabals run America," Al Jazeera America (retrieved 18 January 2016):

     But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”

3. The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).

Related terms

• compulsive
• compulsory

Translations

Further reading

• compulsion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• compulsion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin compulsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pyl.sj??/

Noun

compulsion f (plural compulsions)

1. compulsion

Related terms

• compulsif
• compulsionnel

Further reading

• “compulsion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caco?thes, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kako?th?s, “ill-disposed”) from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (êthos, “disposition, nature”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kak???i??i?z/
• Hyphenation: ca?co?e?thes

Noun

cacoethes (plural cacoethe)

1. Compulsion; mania.
2. (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with cacoethics (“bad ethics or morals; bad habits”).

Alternative forms

• cacoëthes

Derived terms

• cacoethic
• cacoethical
• cacoethically

Translations

Anagrams

• coteaches

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???????? (kakó?thes), the neuter form of ???????? (kako?th?s, “ill-disposed”), from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (êthos, “disposition, nature”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.ko?e?.t?es/, [käko?e?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.ko?e.tes/, [k?k????t??s]

Noun

caco?thes n (genitive caco?this); third declension

1. A malignant tumour or disease.
2. Mania, especially for writing.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem).

References

• cacoethes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cacoethes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cacoethes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette