Compulsion and Knowledge

Compulsion

Compulsion noun - The use of power to impose one's will on another.

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Knowledge and compulsion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Knowledge" instead a noun "Compulsion".

Knowledge noun - A body of facts learned by study or experience.

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Compulsion and knowledge are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compulsion" instead a noun "Knowledge".

Nearby Word: knowledgeable

common	common compulsion	common knowledge
actual	actual compulsion	actual knowledge
innate	innate compulsion	innate knowledge
new	new compulsion	new knowledge
Other adjectives: instinctive, mystical, greater, basic, cultural, magical, technological.

The Sailor Moon season 3 Cloverway dub had everyone, even random monsters of the week, blessed with the knowledge and the compulsion to comment on how not only is "Amara" the cousin of "Michelle", but so were Sailors Uranus and Neptune cousins.

Source: Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
In Shaman Blues, Witkacy's aura is visible to ghosts and makes them come to him, although it's not supernatural compulsion as much as it is knowledge that he's a Psychopomp.

Source: Magnetic Medium
Eisenhorn's savant, Ueber Aemos, is the walking databank he is because of a "meme-virus" he acquired that gives him a compulsion to keep gathering knowledge, culminating in memorising the entirety of the Malus Codicum and summoning a daemon in an attempt to protect Eisenhorn.

Source: Deconstructed Character Archetype

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