Pyromania

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  • noun. The irresistible urge to start fires.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A mania for destroying things by fire; a form of insanity marked by a mania for setting things on fire.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An insane disposition to incendiarism.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A compulsive disorder characterised by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
    • Word Usage
    "At one time it was assumed that there was a mental disorder known as pyromania; the pyromaniac was one with an irresistible impulse to light incendiary fires."
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    cacoethes  mania  passion  
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