Compunction and Compunctious

Compunction

Compunction noun - An uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do.

Compunctious and compunction are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Compunctious" with "Compunction", this nouns are similar.

Compunctious

Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.

Compunction and compunctious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compunction" instead a noun "Compunctious".
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