pyromania

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If the pyromania isn't enough, she uses the word "fucker" just to prove she's really a badass.

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  1. noun The irresistible urge to start fires.

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  • Gene Logsdon calls an activity I've always enjoyed "a more or less safe way to compensate for tendencies toward pyromania" - —  西儒 ─ The Western Confucian
  • - George Jonas in fine form: diversity tolerated is fire prevention; diversity cultivated is pyromania. —  Time Immortal
  • Someone has been sending San Francisco's portable toilets up in flames in a wave of potty pyromania. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
  • Will the city government finally decide that unfettered pyromania is inconsistent with the development of a dense metropolis of —  Imagethief
  • Potty pyromania hits S.F. Construction workers are anxious and investigators are puzzled. —  Times Leader News
 

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  1. from Greek πῦρ, fire, + μανία, madness.
 

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/paɪrəˈmeɪniə/
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