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What is a cacoethes?

What is a cacoethes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Compulsion; mania.
  2. (medicine) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.
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But the cacoethes scribendi possesses me, and all my leisure hours are devoted to a Suite.
This cacoethes scribendi is the pest of every local curiosity or public watering-place.
And, it does so without engaging in sophistry, for the true horror writer is consumed by a cacoethes to engage his moral imagination, to reveal a sliver of the transcendent.
Erasmus shared with most scholars of the Renaissance the cacoethes scribendi.
Celsus consequently used the Latin term cacoethes with a meaning differing from Hippocrates' Greek term kakoethes.
It stated, 'The Cacoethes scribendi has, of late, become epidemical.

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