Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The compulsion to tear or pluck out the hair on one's head and face and often to ingest it.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The habit of continually pulling out hairs from the beard, at the nasal orifices, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. a medical disorder in which the patient compulsively pulls his/her own hair out.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thriks, "hair") (genitive: τριχός (trikhos)) + τίλλω (tillō, "I pull out, pluck") + μανία (mania, "madness"). (Wiktionary)
- tricho- + Greek tillein, to pluck hair + -mania. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But rather than indulge in trichotillomania, do something about it.”
“Often a harmless habit, in its most extreme form, the urge to constantly twirl or pull at hair is called trichotillomania, and it can lead to bald spots or thinning hair.”
“The BBC has a news story on the genetics of a disorder called trichotillomania compulsive hair-pulling that typifies the way genetics discoveries are reported in the media.”
“Chloe was diagnosed with a condition called trichotillomania around the time she started sixth grade at Roosevelt Middle School in 2010.”
“The story starts with a mouse mutant that has a very unusual behavior, which is very similar to the obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder in humans called trichotillomania, when patients compulsively remove all their body hair," explained Capecchi, who is a distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.”
“Parrots compulsively pluck their own feathers; dogs repetitively lick a paw or other fixed spot; humans develop a condition known as trichotillomania, in which they pull out strands of their hair.”
“TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- A common health-food supplement might help ease the urges of people with a compulsive hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania, U.S. researchers report.”
“The 190-page book is a testimony of her life and her hair-pulling habit, called trichotillomania, or "trich.”
“The disorder is called trichotillomania, and leaves sufferers with uncontrollable urges to pluck out the hair of their scalp, eyebrows and even eyelashes, often to the point of baldness.”
“I have a disorder called trichotillomania that causes me to pull out my eyebrows.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trichotillomania’.
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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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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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eyelashes
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly...bree, eye-bree, winker, eyelash, lash, eye-winker, cilia, black-lashed, lashed, dark-lashed, long-lashed, Greek word for ey... and 22 more...
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wajo22's list
signation, genuflection, precosmic, pretemporal, precreative, pre-hexameral, preplanetary, pre-terrestrial, antemundane,
antemundane, signation, genuflection, precosmic, pretemporal, precreative, pre-hexameral, preplanetary, keeperess, trichotillomania, deerstalker, danseur and 99 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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corpus medicorum
words describing medical conditions
decubitus, kernicterus, foetor, paroxysm, tarsorrhaphy, balanitis, porphyria, arcus senilis, coitus interruptus, in extremis, la belle indiffer..., xanthelasma and 184 more...
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parlerodermime's Words
loquacious, orange, lackadaisical, rhythm, esoterrorist, contrary, enchanted, extraordinary, nymph, chatter, incessant, time and 168 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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booknerd's Words
frenetic, elite, kiss, grip, flesh, sugar, ciao, occult, copious, antiquated, drawl, lush and 101 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Odd or Interesting Illnesses and Synd...
stendhal syndrome, alien hand syndrome, uncombable hair s..., capgras’s syndrome, fregoli syndrome, paris syndrome, cotard delusion, reduplicative par..., pica syndrome, trichotillomania, apotemnophilia, somatoparaphrenia and 6 more...
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June 2011
revivify, assimilability, trichotillomania, thalassocracy, prodrome, watteau, keelhaul, maelstrom, glossolalia, ethereal, turophile, piccalilli and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trichotillomania.
madmouth one of the scariest compulsions, with its nightmarish image of swollen, be-plucked eyelids Oct 30, 2009