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What is the noun for coerciveness?

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coercion
  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) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
  5. (linguistics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine their own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers.”
      “The women who reported more severe coercion were more likely to be diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder.”
      “The Court held that picketing could also be a tool of economic coercion and restraint of trade, and hence could be regulated.”
coercivity
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being coercive
  2. (physics) The intensity of the magnetic field which must be applied in order to reduce the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material to zero after the magnetization of the sample has been driven to saturation
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The coercivity of haematite exceeds that of magnetite, and hence this technique is of little use on haematite-dominated magnetizations.”
      “A fundamental challenge researchers are facing is that high media coercivity is normally associated with an increased difficulty in writing.”
      “Mid-range products such as DLTtape IV, Super DLTtape and LTO Ultrium data cartridges have a very high coercivity, in excess of 1800 oersted.”
coercionist
  1. A person who practices, or advocates coercion (or government by coercion)
coercibleness
  1. The state or quality of being coercible.
coerciveness
  1. The state or quality of being coercive.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Like laugh tracks, they cue our emotional responses, but they also disguise their coerciveness by making us feel included.”
      “As their problems have increased, so the police have moved higher up the scale of coerciveness in their menu of tactics.”
      “They used to be feared because of their great power of coerciveness, but their role has lost in prestige over the past few years.”
coercitivity
  1. Alternative form of coercivity
coercee
  1. One who is coerced.
coercer
  1. One who coerces.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves.”
      “If he had been lured or coerced from his house, all traces of the coercer were now apparently obliterated.”
      “Others identify coercion with the making of threats, but seek to distinguish threats from offers in ways that avoid reference to a baseline, and instead look at the qualities of the coercer and his activities.”
coercitivities
  1. plural of coercitivity
coercionists
  1. plural of coercionist
coercivities
coercions
  1. plural of coercion
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All these concerns, apprehensions, fears and coercions can be rationally addressed.”
      “Viewers could enjoy Django's blood-soaked expedition through the South without the constraints of history or the coercions of seriousness.”
      “Harrower is as interested in the seductions of power as in its coercions.”
coercees
  1. plural of coercee
coercers
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