irrational impulse

1. 1.

   a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation

   “his first impulse was to denounce them”

   “the urge to find out got him into trouble”

   Broaderirrational motive

   Narrowercompulsion

Questions about irrational impulse

What does irrational impulse mean?

irrational impulse means "a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation".

Is irrational impulse a common word?

irrational impulse 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.