cacoethes

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cacoethes词义

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n. 恶癖，恶习；难抑制的欲望


cacoethes英文词源

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cacoethes (n.)
"itch for doing something," 1560s, from Latinized form of Greek kakoethes "ill-habit, wickedness, itch for doing (something)," from kakos "bad" (see caco-) + ethe- "disposition, character" (see ethos). Most famously, in Juvenal's insanabile scribendi cacoethes "incurable passion for writing."