Definition for Compunction:

• A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.

Synonyms for Compunction:

• n.

  •
  • integrity,
  • purity,
  • respectability,
  • propriety,
  • good,
  • decency,
  • goodness,
  • right,
  • modesty,
  • virtue.
  •
  • hesitation.
  •
  • certain,
  • reservation.
  •cause (noun)
  • enforcement,
  • provocation,
  • mainspring,
  • drive,
  • force,
  • determinant,
  • factor,
  • evocation,
  • cause,
  • action,
  • motive,
  • effectuation,
  • source,
  • execution,
  • grounds,
  • inspiration,
  • compulsion,
  • root,
  • origination,
  • basis,
  • generation,
  • elicitation,
  • stimulus,
  • motivator.
  •compassion (noun)
  • softheartednesses,
  • tenderheartednesses,
  • humanenesses.
  •conscience (noun)
  • still small voice,
  • right and wrong,
  • small voice,
  • superego,
  • squeam,
  • Superegos.
  •contrition (noun)
  • self reproaches,
  • selfreproach,
  • self-reproaches,
  • self reproach,
  • selfreproaches.
  •feeling (noun)
  • compunction.
  •penance (noun)
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • selfflagellations,
  • expiations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellation,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • selfflagellation,
  • self flagellations,
  • self-flagellations.
  •penitence (noun)
  • self-punishment,
  • self-castigation,
  • ruefulness,
  • self-condemnation.
  •pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  •qualm (noun)
  • in-security,
  • dis quiets,
  • mis doubt,
  • un-certainty,
  • mis-giving,
  • mis doubts,
  • dis-quiets,
  • re-monstrance,
  • in-securities,
  • un eases,
  • mis-doubt,
  • dis quiet,
  • in-decisions,
  • in-decision,
  • re monstrance,
  • fore boding,
  • un-certainties,
  • in decisions,
  • mis giving,
  • un-ease,
  • mis-trust,
  • in decision,
  • fore bodings,
  • in securities,
  • re-monstrances,
  • mis trusts,
  • re monstrances,
  • un-eases,
  • un certainty,
  • un certainties,
  • mis-doubts,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • mis trust,
  • pre sentiments,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • dis-quiet.
  •regret (noun)
  • lamentation,
  • self-disgust,
  • self-accusation,
  • contrition,
  • regretfulness.
  •regret, sorrow (noun)
  • reluctance,
  • second thoughts,
  • punctiliousness,
  • ruth,
  • conscience,
  • stab of conscience,
  • sympathy.
  •remorse (noun)
  • re morse,
  • re-morse,
  • re morses,
  • pangs conscience,
  • re-morses.
  •repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  •scruple (noun)
  • scruples,
  • Reluctancy,
  • squeamishness,
  • reconsideration,
  • reconsiderations.
  •shame (noun)
  • stupefaction,
  • skeleton in cupboard,
  • bad conscience,
  • shamefacedness,
  • skeleton in the cupboard,
  • self-reproof,
  • Pudency,
  • loss of face.
  •solicitude (noun)
  • considerateness,
  • tender loving care.
  •uneasiness (noun)
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis beliefs,
  • un easinesses,
  • dis-belief,
  • dis pleasure,
  • in-quietudes,
  • dis-content,
  • un-rest,
  • in-stabilities,
  • dis contents,
  • in quietudes,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis pleasures,
  • un easiness,
  • in quietude,
  • in stability,
  • in stabilities,
  • in-stability,
  • queasinesses,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • dis content,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-contents,
  • in-quietude,
  • un rest,
  • un-rests,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis belief,
  • dyspathies.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Penitency,
  • remorsefulness.
  •
  • misgiving,
  • scruple,
  • attrition.

Paraphrases for Compunction:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    remorse.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    conscience.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hesitation.

Antonyms for Compunction:

• n.

  • regret, sorrow
    mercilessness, indifference, defiance, disdain, meanness, happiness.
  • Other antonyms:
    confidence, certitude, impenitence, content, comfort, complacency, self-assurance, stubbornness, obduracy, self-congratulation, approval, obstinacy, conviction, sureness, certainty, hardness, aplomb, assurance, self-complacency, self-confidence.

Compunction Sentence Examples:

• I stole it, without any compunction of conscience, and carry the spoils still with me.

• Yet his mind dwelt on Coral with tenderness, with compunction, with remorse; and he was almost sure that Susy had already put Strefford utterly out of her mind.

Hypernym for Compunction:

• n.

  • feeling
    guilt trip, repentance, guilt feelings, guilty conscience, guilt, penitence, penance.

Hyponym for Compunction:

• n.

  • feeling
    ruefulness, sorrow, regret, rue.