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pyromania

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pyromania /ˌpaɪroʊˈmeɪnijə/ noun
pyromania
/ˌpaɪroʊˈmeɪnijə/
noun
Learner's definition of PYROMANIA
[noncount]
: a mental illness that makes people have a strong desire to set fires纵火狂

— pyromaniac

/ˌpaɪroʊˈmeɪniˌæk/ noun, plural pyromaniacs [count]
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pyromania

noun

py·​ro·​ma·​nia ˌpī-rō-ˈmā-nē-ə How to pronounce pyromania (audio)
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: an irresistible impulse to start fires

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web After her exercise in pyromania, Serena stays with her mother. Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 7 June 2019 And finding signs of past fire-lighting on tools used for other purposes may offer the best window into the origins of humanity's collective pyromania. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 July 2018 Best-selling author Margaret George has just published a novel repackaging the Roman emperor Nero, whose name has evoked mayhem and recreational pyromania for the past 2,000 years, as a misunderstood stripling. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 5 May 2017

Word History

Etymology

New Latin

First Known Use

circa 1842, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pyromania was circa 1842
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