paksaan
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
- Semantic loan from Dutch dwang (“coercion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paksaan (first-person possessive paksaanku, second-person possessive paksaanmu, third-person possessive paksaannya)
- force, pressure
- coercion:
- actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law) 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.
Further reading edit
- “paksaan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.