cacoëthes

noun

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  1. compulsion
  2. craving
  3. infatuation
  4. yearning
  5. thirst
  6. fascination
  7. longing
  8. itch
Noun
  • Gondry expands his eclectic filmography with this rejuvenating fantasia, revealing another facet of his creativity (and confessing a certain compulsion; when Maya declines to provide a title for a next short, his reaction is priceless).
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Overcoming the compulsions, the siren’s call, the lowest-common-denominator, tabloid, casino effect of everything in a very competitive attention environment where we’re driven toward the lowest common denominator.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
Definition of compulsion
Noun
  • This mom's viral TikTok raised questions about potential risks connected to some of the cravings pregnant people can have.
    — Hannah Silverman, Parents, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Dig in: The casual waterfront eatery will satisfy your seafood cravings and give visitors a quintessential San Diego experience, especially sitting at the outdoor countertop overlooking the Point Loma Marina.
    — Kate Murphy, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of craving
Noun
  • Sidao’s infatuation with the sport was so deep that he is thought to have penned the first manual on the subject.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • However, their infatuation eventually blurs the lines between fantasy and their miserable realities, inviting new horrors to seep in.
    — Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of infatuation
Noun
  • People enjoyed the novelty of these more down-to-earth actors, but, as this becomes normalized, a yearning opens up for those who operate on the other extreme.
    — Callum Booth, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a strange way, too, in which the goofiness reinforces the melancholy at the heart of his joke, a yearning for an entire range of interactions that have fallen to the wayside in a world that doesn’t have use for them.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of yearning
Noun
  • This sort of implicit address to the work’s spectators, and to their unquenchable thirst for more, also crops up in some of the photographer’s graver pictures.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
  • After 14 days isolated below, Collins died of thirst, hunger and hypothermia.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of thirst
Noun
  • Read: Behind the American right’s fascination with Viktor Orbán Putin and Russia always held a special place in Trump world, however.
    — Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Their rites could not be revealed to those outside the cult and were therefore a source of great fascination to the wider populace.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of fascination
Noun
  • The earworm record provokes a sense of longing, one that is uplifting, cathartic and beautiful.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • If the famous pistol scene feels a bit anticlimactic, the end of the play distills a shattering feeling of longing for something long lost.
    — Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of longing
Noun
  • The itch may be intense, affect sleep, and interrupt daily activities.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The biters are too tiny to defend against, tucking into the various cracks and crevices of the dinosaur’s scaly skin, and there’s little an irritated dinosaur can do but try to alleviate the itch.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of itch
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