Translation of "cacoethes scribendi" into English
insatiable desire to write is the translation of "cacoethes scribendi" into English.
cacoethes scribendi
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insatiable desire to write
Cacoēthes|6| "bad habit", or medically, "malignant disease" is a borrowing of Greek kakóēthes.|7| The phrase is derived from a line in the Satires of Juvenal: Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, or "the incurable desire |or itch| for writing affects many". See hypergraphia.
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