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kleptomania
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context psychology English) a psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need. n. (context psychology English) a psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing ...
Wikipedia
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Kleptomania or klopemania is the inability to refrain from the urge to steal items and is done for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse control disorder . Alternatively, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, formed from mania + Greek kleptes "thief," from kleptein "to steal, act secretly," from PIE *klep- "to steal," an extention of root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell ; cognate with Latin clepere "to steal, listen secretly to," Old Prussian au-klipts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kleptomania \Klep`to*ma"ni*a\, n. [Gr. kle`pths thief + E. mania.] A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. --Wharton.
Usage examples of kleptomania.
It is a peculiarity of kleptomania, as you are no doubt aware, that the subject is unable to differentiate between the intrinsic values of objects.
Evil Dad was the sole source of hemorrhoids, kleptomania, global conflict, bad breath, tectonic-plate fault lines, and clogged drains, as well as every migraine headache and menstrual cramp Righteous Mom had ever suffered.
Kitty is suffering from a form of vertigo, an insanity, kleptomania, the real thing.
The enemy cavalry had certainly crossed the Athan by now, and pyromania was as fixed in the mercenary character as kleptomania.
The Reverend caught him boosting a pack of gum at the local Pig and Whistle and flayed his ass so bad that Big Des popped a bunch of tendons trying to get free of his bonds and was sidelined for the rest of the football season, a first-string linebacker with a third-string brain and a first-class case of kleptomania that he was now terrified to run with: no legs and no balls, courtesy of Liam Considine, first-string Calvinist.