Cacoethes
[kuh-koh-ee-theez]
Part of speech: noun
- an irresistible urge or urge to do something inadvisable or harmful, especially a compulsion or obsession
Examples of
Cacoethes
in a sentence
- His cacoethes for collecting rare books led him to spend a fortune.
- She couldn’t resist the cacoethes to check her phone during the meeting.
