Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, a mental disorder

Compulsory education

Compulsory voting

Compulsion (band), a punk group active in the mid-'90s

Compulsion (film), a 1959 film based on Levin's book.

Compulsion (book), a 1956 novel, by American author Meyer Levin, about the Leopold and Loeb case.

Compulsion (novel), a 2001 novel, by British author Shaun Hutson

Compulsion, a 1989 song originally written and recorded by Joe Crow and released as a single by Martin Gore on his Counterfeit e.p. album in 1989.