Dictionary Entry
coercion
coercion is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of coercing. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of coercing.
- 2noun
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
- 3noun
using force to cause something to occur
"though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"
"they didn't have to use coercion"
Synonyms
- 4noun
the act of compelling by force of authority
Synonyms
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in coercion:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for COERCION lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.