cacoethes
[,kæko'iθiz]
- n. 恶癖，恶习；难抑制的欲望
英英释义
- 1. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
英文词源
- cacoethes (n.)
- "itch for doing something," 1560s, from Latinized form of Greek kakoethes "ill-habit, wickedness, itch for doing (something)," from kakos "bad" (see caco-) + ethe- "disposition, character" (see ethos). Most famously, in Juvenal's insanabile scribendi cacoethes "incurable passion for writing."