cacoethes
Noun
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An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (synset 109204454)
is a type of: irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logicsubtypes:
- agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- alcoholism, dipsomania, potomania - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
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