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Meanings of cacoethes in English

Spanish
manía

An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.

manía
Synonyms
Examples for "passion"
Examples for "passion"
1
How many other countries in Europe follow US politics with such passion?
Independent.ie
2
What Labour needs, he said was more passion and far better organisation.
The Irish Times
3
Government and politics is my passion; I expect others to share it.
The incumbent
4
Walter's passion is for helping at-risk young people find hope and purpose.
Radio NZ
5
His daughter said he still held a great passion for the sport.
BBC
1
Yet the mania for building has not gone quietly into the night.
The Irish Times
2
The near mania that once flabbergasted even emerging market specialists is gone.
Reuters
3
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marking 500 years since the dancing mania … Strasbourg.
The Guardian
4
Symptoms of mania or hypomania have more variable effects on work productivity.
Pubmed
5
Collectively known as Yeezy Season, releases have created a mania of desire.
Wired
Usage of cacoethes in English
1
The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi."
The Satyricon — Complete
2
Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work.
White Lies
3
Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.
The Freelands
4
And this result of her contacts with Courtier, this 'cacoethes volandi', and feeling of clipped wings, hurt her-asbeing forbidden hurts a child.
The Patrician
5
If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Frequent collocations
Translations for cacoethes
Spanish
manía
Cacoethes through the time