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IRRATIONAL IMPULSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irrational impulse mean? 

IRRATIONAL IMPULSE (noun)
  The noun IRRATIONAL IMPULSE has 1 sense:

1. a strong spontaneous and irrational motivationplay

  Familiarity information: IRRATIONAL IMPULSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IRRATIONAL IMPULSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong spontaneous and irrational motivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Context example:

the urge to find out got him into trouble

Hypernyms ("irrational impulse" is a kind of...):

irrational motive (a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irrational impulse"):

compulsion; irresistible impulse (an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid)


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