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doramania
1. The compulsion to own furs.
2. An abnormal interest in fur.
doromania, doromaniac
A compulsion to give presents.
drapetomania
An uncontrollable desire to run away (from home, responsibilities, a bad situation, etc.).
dromomania
1. A mania for roaming, running, or traveling.
2. An intense enthusiasm or compulsion to travel; wanderlust.
3. An uncontrollable desire to wander away from home.
dysmorphomania
1. Preoccupation with the possibility of developing a physical deformity or a delusional conviction that such a deformity has already developed.
2. An abnormal dread of deformity, particularly in others.
ecdemiomania, ecdemomania, ecdemomonomania
1. A morbid impulse, or obsession, to travel or wander around.
2. A compulsive wandering away from home.
ecomania, eciomania
1. A morbid attitude toward the members of one’s family [domineering behavior at home and humility toward other persons in authority].
2. A pathological dislike of the members of one’s family often resulting in a feeling that one must get away from them.
edeomania
An abnormal interest in genitals.
egomania, egomaniac
1. A morbid egotism; an extreme self-centeredness or self-appreciation.
2. An abnormal interest in one’s self; extreme egotism.
eidemomania
A compulsion to wander or roam.
eisoptromania
1. A compulsion to keep looking at oneself in a mirror.
2. An abnormal and persistent desire by people to see themselves in mirrors.
3. A love of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
eisoptromaniac
Someone who takes every possible opportunity to look at himself or herself in a mirror.
eleutheromania; eleuthromania
A mad zeal or irresistible craving for freedom.
eleuthromania
Hypersexuality in females.
emetomania
A morbid desire to vomit, usually an hysterical symptom.
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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