kleptomania in English

noun
1
a recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit.
People with kleptomania often have another psychiatric disorder, often a mood disorder such as depression and anxiety.

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1. Kleptomania is treatable, but it takes time.

2. Kleptomania is a mania for stealing things.

3. The millionaire who was caught shoplifting was found to be suffering from kleptomania.

4. Bree: Well, I wonder if the victims of your kleptomania felt the same way.

5. Kleptomania is the disease in which a person has great difficulty resisting the impulse to steal something.

6. Crossing the channel to nineteenth-century Paris, Shteir tracks the rise of the department store and the pathologizing of shoplifting as kleptomania.

7. 9 Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot, the film spans 20 years as the two delve into subjects including psychiatry, autism, taxidermy, kleptomania and agoraphobia.