different between urgency vs coercion

urgency

English

Etymology

probably from urgent +? -cy

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??.d??n.si/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)d??nsi

Noun

urgency (countable and uncountable, plural urgencies)

  1. The quality or condition of being urgent
    the urgency of a demand
  2. insistence, pressure
    I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.

Synonyms

  • exigency
  • clamancy

Translations

References

  • “urgency”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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coercion

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

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