different between vehemence vs coercion

English

Etymology

From Middle French vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??m?n(t)s/, /?vi?h?m?n(t)s/

Noun

vehemence (usually uncountable, plural vehemences)

1. An intense concentration, force or power.

   The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.

2. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.

   His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.

   • 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):

     This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

3. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1:

     I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

Related terms

• vehemency
• vehement

Translations

Further reading

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