| 单词 | cacoethes |
| 释义 | cacoethes (once / 181836 pages) n WORD FAMILY cacoethes USAGE EXAMPLESBut my physician informs me that I have got the "cacoethes scribendi," which he says is as bad as the small-pox, toothache, and yellow fever. Doesticks, Q. K. Philander, Doesticks, What He Says(2012) There were many things the kindly veteran would smooth over in order not to wound sensitive minds bitten with the cacoëthes scribendi. Smith, G. Barnett, Victor Hugo: His Life and Works(2011) The cacoëthes scribendi is a disease common, not to imaginative, but to imitative, minds. Erichsen, Hugo, Methods of Authors(2010) n an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action Syn|Hypo|Hyper mania, passion agromania an intense desire to be alone or out in the open alcoholism, dipsomania, potomaniaan intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomaniaan intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomaniaan irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrheapathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possessiona mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilisman irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromaniaan irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromaniaan uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomaniaan irresistible urge to pull out your own hair irrational motive a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic |
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