CACOËTHESES Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

cacoëtheses

noun

plural of cacoëthes

as in urges

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Noun

The physical space clearly aligns the designer’s passions for fashion with architecture and design, métiers which affect his process almost subconsciously.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026
Musicians followed their passions and lifelong relationships were built.

— Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of passions

Noun

Bouzari not only sells super-fast hard drives but also uses software to break up enormous files and spread them simultaneously across thousands of drives.

— Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The cinema-verite trailblazer Kopple, who just turned 80, completes her trilogy about labor activism that began 50 years ago with Harlan Country, USA by looking at a trio of union-organizing drives against Jeff Bezos’ Amazon in her native New York.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of drives

Noun

The annual dining crawl features two routes with at least 10 stops, though those with big appetites can choose to do both.

— Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Things have changed, and the market has started to punish big tech companies with seemingly endless appetites for more compute.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 July 2026

Definition of appetites

Noun

The real question is whether Pennsylvania and cities like Pittsburgh want skill games and other gambling opportunities to be widespread and unavoidable for people who struggle with compulsions to gamble.

— Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026

Definition of compulsions

Noun

Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026

Definition of enthusiasms

Noun

The property has plenty of experiences for guests, from a hot air balloon ride to bike trips and whiskey tastings.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Mamdani has been making trips to firehouses most impacted by losses on 9/11, a spokesperson told CNN, visiting eight on Staten Island as well as FDNY Rescue 1 in Manhattan, which lost nearly half its company at the Twin Towers.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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