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What does kleptomania mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychology) A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
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Its exercise would probably be classed with kleptomania and other like excesses of purely personal consideration.
A euphemism of kleptomania had been offered and accepted as sufficient excuse for her crime.
He doesn't need to steal, so the only motivation can be pleasure or something like kleptomania.
Were it not for her kleptomania and tendency to faint, one would assume she was a very happy woman.
People with kleptomania often have another psychiatric disorder, often a mood disorder such as depression and anxiety.
Later, when his wife, Jarman's mother, was dying of cancer, the air commodore succumbed to kleptomania.

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