cacoethes

Other forms of cacoethes

plural

cacoetheses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cacoethes

What does cacoethes mean?

cacoethes means "an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action".

How many syllables are in cacoethes?

cacoethes has 3 syllables and divides as ca-coe-thes under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cacoethes?

Close synonyms include mania, passion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cacoethes a common word?

cacoethes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.