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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, a morbid impulse to work over mathematical problems, or to count objects or acts, such as buttons, steps, etc.

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  1. n. an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which the subject feels the need to count things

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  • “Vampires are said to suffer from a condition called arithmomania: a compulsive desire to count things. numbers: these are defined as a number that can be written as the product of two smaller numbers of half the length which contain all the digits of the larger number.”

    An Englishman's Castle

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  • reesetee Wordie comments.... ;-) Nov 8, 2007

  • uselessness Obsessive-compulsive counting of everything: ceiling tiles, vertical blinds, paper clips. Nov 8, 2007

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