Disposition vs Cacoethes - What's the difference?
disposition | cacoethes |
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
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Control over something.
(label) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
(label) Final decision or settlement.
(label) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
(label) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
compulsion; mania
(medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between disposition and cacoethes
is that disposition is disposal while cacoethes is compulsion; mania.disposition
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- He was, indeed, a lad of a remarkable disposition ; sober, discreet, and pious beyond his age...
Derived terms
* dispositional * ambulatory disposition * disposition hearing * testamentary dispositioncacoethes
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Alternative forms
*Noun
- (Addison)