Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The irresistible urge to start fires.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mania for destroying things by fire; a form of insanity marked by a mania for setting things on fire.
Wiktionary
- n. psychology A compulsive disorder characterised by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An insane disposition to incendiarism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
Etymologies
- From pyro- + -mania. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Pathological fire-setting, known as pyromania, manifests when the action is”
“She got Jack Be Nimble to kick his pyromania habit.”
“It's the perfect justifcation for just about everything, especially pyromania and dirt-bike usage.”
“This was a good excuse to combine engineering with some Boy Scout pyromania," he said.”
“Rihanna collaborates with Eminem for his new video 'Love the Way You Lie,' filled with scenes of domestic violence and pyromania.”
The Huffington Post: WATCH: Megan Fox Abused In Rihanna & Eminem 'Love The Way You Lie' Video
“SSRIs also produce kleptomania as seen with the Ryder/Zoloft case observes Henderson, pyromania as seen in an English millionaire who burned down his own house and immolation suicides and a "strange kind" of nymphomania.”
“Julie, really enjoyed your writing style and the great cocktail of youth, sex and pyromania in this powerful, wry piece!”
“It became apparent that each patient on the pyromania ward had a unique relationship with fire.”
“Tall and precocious for my age, but in the eleventh grade, I was hired one summer as a nursing assistant at the South Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center and assigned to the pyromania ward.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pyromania’.
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-mania
mental disorder; excessive craving
kleptomania, bibliomania, manic, Beatlemania, pyromania, megalomania, ablutomania, aboulomania, agromania, andromania, anglomania, anthomania and 122 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Hot! Hot! Hot! Sauce
List of actual wacky- or odd sounding hot sauce brands, clever or otherwise. This list demonstrates the interestingly odd human penchant to wallow in things scatalogical or irreverent references t...
blair's death sauce, dave's gourmet in..., gil's crying tongue, mad dog inferno, blair's after dea..., blair's sudden de..., see jane on fire, 357 mad dog, see dick burn, pain and suffering, pleasure and pain, sorrano and 225 more...
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P words
Only the most awesome 'P' words
palinode, palinola, palzogony, pyrrhotism, pulchritude, phocine, pierine, pi, pit, pitty, proton, pyromania and 10 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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pyro-, pyr-
of or relating to fire; denoting a mineral or compound formed or affected by heat or having a fiery color
pyromania, pyrophosphate, pyromaniac, pyre, pryrogallol, pyroxene, pyroxenite
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Unusual and Random Words
My Favourite Kind
quagmire, soliloquy, aardvark, topaz, ardent, exquisite, pyromania, pyre, extravagant, obscure, quetzal, quibble and 199 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Psych
dissonance, aphasia, psychotic, schizoid, schizotypal, cognition, sublimation, oedipal, self-actualization, psychoanalysis, humanist, freudian and 51 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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invented by bored Victorians
currently up to 1864 - progress will continue!
Bonus prize: the split infinitiveabsquatulate, phalanstery, ampersand, arboretum, stridulation, penology, antidisestablishm..., calisthenics, bric-a-brac, pyromania, dipsomania, prestidigitator and 7 more...
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Wordmania
ablutomania, agromania, anthomania, arithmomania, balletomania, bibliomania, bruxomania, cleptomania, decalcomania, demonomania, dipsomania, dromomania and 42 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pyromania.
hernesheir The name of a hot sauce. Sep 22, 2009