irresistible impulse

1. 1.

   an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid

   “he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident”

   Synonymscompulsion

   Broaderirrational impulse

Questions about irresistible impulse

What does irresistible impulse mean?

irresistible impulse means "an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid".

What is another word for irresistible impulse?

Close synonyms include compulsion. 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 irresistible impulse a common word?

irresistible 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.