different between exigency vs coercion

English

Etymology

From Middle French exigence , from Late Latin exigentia (“urgency”) (from exig?ns + -ia), from exigere (“to demand”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): [???z?d??nsi]

Noun

exigency (countable and uncountable, plural exigencies)

1. (chiefly in the plural) The demands or requirements of a situation.
2. An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.

Synonyms

• exigence
• necessity
• urgency

Related terms

• exigent
• exigenter
• exiguity
• exiguous

Translations

References

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Old French cohercion, from Latin coerciti? (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arce? (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?????n/, /ko?????n/

Noun

coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)

1. (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
2. (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
3. (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
4. (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
5. (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

Antonyms

• noncoercion

Hyponyms

• type coercion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.

References

• coercion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• criocone