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Recurrent urge to steal
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kleptomania
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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 ...
WordNet
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n. an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kleptomania (or cleptomania ; from – "to steal", and μανία – "mania") usually refers to the mental disorder in which a person is unable to resist the urge to collect or hoard things. However, this term may also refer to: Kleptomania (album) , a 2004 album ...
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.