Crossword-Solution: PYROMANIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyromania | n. | An insane disposition to incendiarism. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PYROMANIA | anagram | OPRYMANIA |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PYROMANIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Firebug's affliction. | 1 answer |
| uncontrollable urge to set things on fire | 1 answer |
| an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | 1 answer |
| What might involve reminiscing about old flames? | 1 answer |
| Very strong desire to set fire to things | 1 answer |
| Obsession with setting things on fire | 1 answer |
| Light-mindedness? | 1 answer |
| Impulse to start fires | 1 answer |
| INCENDIARY mania | 1 answer |
| Fire starter's obsession | 1 answer |
| Classic Def Leppard album from 1983 | 1 answer |
| Burning lust in partially vacated part of eastern Europe | 1 answer |
| An uncontrollable impulse to set things on fire | 1 answer |
| A very strong desire to set fire to things | 1 answer |
| Lighting problem? | 3 answers |
| Burning desire | 6 answers |
| Arson? | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PYROMANIA (5)
The craving for stimulants or drugs, sexual perversions, kleptomania, pyromania, and the other manias, bad temper, jealousy- there is a good deal of the old Adam in us which is just wholly bad and to be utterly done away with; rebellious impulses that are hopelessly at war with our own good and must go the way of cannibalism and polygamy.
There are kleptomania, or an abnormal impulse to steal; pyromania, an impulse to set things on fire; dipsomania, or an abnormal fondness for intoxicants; nymphomania, or the tyranny of lustful passions; homicidal mania, or a craving to commit murder; etc.
The crank is, generally, a harmless individual, and is not anti-social unless his delusions take the form of homicidal impulse, pyromania, kleptomania, etc.
But we may take this opportunity of reminding the reader that Henke,[113] an earlier investigator, regarded pyromania as due chiefly to arrest or disturbance of the physical and psychical phenomena of puberty.
Esquirol himself appears to have shared this opinion; and although modern psychiatry takes quite a different view of pyromania, we have none the less to insist that unduly retarded development may, just as much as premature development, give rise to undesirable consequences.
Quotes with PYROMANIA (2)
Jordana is in the umpire's highchair. I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box. Her legs are crossed. I wait for her to speak.'I have two special skills,' she says. She pulls a sheaf of papers from under her bum. I recognize the font and the text boxes. It's my pamphlet.'Blackmail,' she says. She holds up her Zippo in the other hand. I can tell that she has been practising this.'And pyromania.'I am imp…
I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1959–2014).