Associations to the word «Kleptomania»

Wiktionary

KLEPTOMANIA, noun. (psychology) a psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.

Dictionary definition

KLEPTOMANIA, noun. An irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats