Definition of
Cacoethes
- (noun, motive) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
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Alternate forms of Cacoethes
Hyponyms: agromania, alcoholism, dipsomania, egomania, kleptomania, logomania, logorrhea, monomania, necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism, phaneromania, possession, potomania, pyromania, trichotillomania
Hypernyms: irrational motive
Origin of the word Cacoethes
- "itch for doing something," 1560s, from L., from Gk. kakoethes "ill-habit, wickedness, itch for doing (something)," from kakos "bad" + ethe- "disposition, character" (see ethos). Most famously, in Juvenal's insanabile scribendi cacoethes "incurable passion for writing." more
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