cacoëthes

noun

Definition of cacoëthesnext
as in compulsion

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cacoëthes
  1. compulsion
  2. craving
  3. infatuation
  4. yearning
  5. thirst
  6. fascination
  7. longing
  8. itch
Noun
  • Lila is trying to destroy their relationship; his inability to resist women is something out of his control, a chronic compulsion, a disorder.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
  • As for how any particular magical compulsion might develop?
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of compulsion
Noun
  • If the brisk ten-episode season, which wrapped up this week, isn’t enough to feed your cravings, here are the books to carry you all the way through a happy and horrifying fall.
    Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Shop this meat delivery service for all your holiday cravings.
    Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of craving
Noun
  • As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to destroy them all.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
  • All the while, Oh and Comer’s slow dance of antagonism crossed with infatuation is some of the most thrilling acting in recent television memory.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
Definition of infatuation
Noun
  • Stella isn’t being betrayed — if anything, she’s being reached out to, desperately, like her light-years-away namesake, by two yearning humans with their feet, at least for now, stuck on the ground.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Behind every unresolved murder case is a family that never stopped mourning or yearning for justice.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of yearning
Noun
  • Or maybe your thirst for wine knowledge rivals your thirst for wine.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
  • For all my thirst for ghost stories as a kid, the ghost-hunting fad that came later never really captured my imagination in the same way.
    Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of thirst
Noun
  • This sympathy wasn’t simply a fascination with human evil—with a death instinct—but an attraction to a deeper freedom, a more intense form of life than parliaments and pamphleteering offered.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In a segment that continued to indulge the show’s fascination with McEntire (why not have her host sometime?), Gardner portrayed the singer as an undecided voter.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of fascination
Noun
  • Her longing was only exacerbated when sandwich chain Jimmy John's announced the launch of its new Picklewich.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There’s a lot of longing, there’s a lot of sorrow in the book.
    James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of longing
Noun
  • Space travel is an itch that the United States, under any president, seems unable to resist scratching.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But these are, arguably, some of the best in the country and worth a visit to scratch any itch for retail therapy.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of itch
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“Cacoëthes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caco%C3%ABthes. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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