Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun irresistible_impulse

1 sense of irresistible impulse

Sense 1
compulsion, irresistible impulse -- (an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid; "he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident")
       => irrational impulse -- (a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble")