kleptomania
IPA: kɫɛptʌmˈeɪniʌ
noun
- (psychology) A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
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Examples of "kleptomania" in Sentences
- Kleptomania has several different treatments.
- Kleptomania contains a number of hidden tracks.
- We don't say gold is 'an object of kleptomania'.
- Kleptomania as a symptom of emotional disturbance
- Sharon grew very stressed and experienced kleptomania again.
- Creed's lack of shame or morals extends beyond mere kleptomania.
- His mother struggles with kleptomania and is unable to care for Jake.
- Additionally, her kleptomania is announced openly in the 1978 version.
- The word used, kleptomania, an insane compulsion to steal, is insupportable.
- Author Thomas Mallon argues that plagiarism is pathology, akin to kleptomania.
- But perhaps this was due in part, at least, to "kleptomania," -- a disease then but little understood.
- Its chief one, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich: 'kleptomania' for example.
- News Corp has been increasingly aggressive since Mr Murdoch said search engines such as Google engaged in '' kleptomania ''.
- Pathological gambling is similar to many other impulse control disorders such as kleptomania, pyromania, and trichotillomania.
- Today, reading the news, I find today's news stories have much to do with what can only be described as kleptomania by the few against the many:
- _ -- Like many another I dislike the term "kleptomania" and would much prefer the term "pathological stealing" to denote the condition under consideration.
- Sexual inversion is frequently regarded as one of them: i.e., as an episodic syndrome of a hereditary disease, taking its place beside other psychic stigmata, such as kleptomania and pyromania.
- "Then," resumed Roger, who had evidently been pondering what Lady Bernard had previously said, "you would consider what is called kleptomania as the impulse to steal transmitted by a thief-ancestor?"
- I try to catch myself and wonder if I am not overreacting, but seriously, how many people, both unemployed and underemployed, the latter being the great hidden secret the family does not want to face, sort of like Uncle John's drinking problem, or Aunt Millie's kleptomania, that is spinning exponentially out of control and threatens to accelerate the misery index beyond anything we are now facing.
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