noun. An obsessive impulse to steal regardless of economic need.

noun. See cleptomania, cleptomaniac.

noun. A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.

noun. a psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.

noun. an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive

"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."

kleptomaniac  kleptomaniacal  

cacoethes  mania  passion  

Anglophobia  Saint Paul  arson  banditry  comix