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iconomania
1. An excessive devotion to or a morbid impulse for collecting images (icons or portraits).
2. An infatuation with icons, whether as objects of devotion, works of art, bric-a-brac, or curios.
idolomania
1. Zealous idolatry.
2. An abnormal interest in idols.
islomania
A passion, excessive interest in, or craze for islands.
Italomania
An excessive interest in things related to Italy or Italians.
kainomania
1. A morbid interest in novelty or new trends.
2. A strong tendency to possess new things.
kathisomania
An uncontrollable compulsion to sit down.
kinesomania
A compulsion for movement; an excessive desire to be on the move.
klazomania
In psychiatry, a compulsion to shout or compulsive shouting; usually a motor discharge phenomenon based on mesencephalic or other central nervous system irritation.
kleptomania, kleptomaniac
Once known as
klopemania. An irresistible tendency to steal in which a person steals not because of necessity but as a result of some compulsion.
Don’t worry if you’re a kleptomaniac, you can always
take something for it.
—Author Unknown
An example of a kleptomaniac is available here.
klopemania
An older form of kleptomania.
krauomania
A tic (nervous twitch) marked by rhythmic movements.
lagneuomania
1. A mental disorder characterized by lustful, sadistic, lewd, and lecherous actions.
2. Particularly, a sexual sadism in a man.
3. An abnormal preoccupation with lewd talk and actions.
lalomania
A compulsion to talk excessively.
letheomania
An obsessive desire for, craving for, or fascination with narcotics.
lethomania
A morbid longing for narcotic drugs; an addiction to drugs.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave":
fur-, furi-;
ira-;
lysso-;
rab-, rav-.
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