cacoethes

cacoethes has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing".
• n.. A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
• n.. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action