Cacoethes

[kuh-koh-ee-theez]

Part of speech: noun

  1. 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.

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