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kleptomania|klɛptəʊˈmeɪnɪə|
Also clepto-.
[f. Gr. κλεπτο-, combining form of κλέπτης thief + mania.]
An irresistible tendency to theft, actuating persons who are not tempted to it by necessitous circumstances, supposed by some to be a form of insanity.
1830New Monthly Mag. XXVIII. 15 Instances of this cleptomania are well known to have happened in this country, even among the rich and noble. 1861Critic 19 Oct. 410 Persons..subject to what has been characterised as ‘Kleptomania’. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxiii, When a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania.
Hence kleptoˈmaniac, one affected with kleptomania (also attrib. or as adj.); klepˈtomanist.
1861R. F. Burton City of Saints 74 The Dakota of these regions are expert and daring kleptomaniacs. 1874H. Maudsley Respons. in Ment. Dis. iii. 82 Many kleptomaniacs have..been moral imbeciles. 1884Graphic Christm. No. 21/1 A kleptomaniac ape. 1862M. B. Edwards John & I xliv. (1876) 321 No more..than a kleptomanist can keep his fingers off the goods on a shop-counter. |