An imposing word for an urgeSourced
Not region-specific · English meaning
Cacoethes can name a compulsion or mania
The English noun cacoethes means a compulsion or mania. It gives an unfamiliar name to an overpowering urge or fixation.
The dictionary word can be harder to say than the feeling it names.
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