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A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mania, passion, cacoethes
From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “to steal”) + -mania, analyzed as klepto- + -mania.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مرض السرقَة
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Armenian:
կլեպտոմանիա
(kleptomania)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Bemba:
ulu-nwe
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Bengali:
চৌর্যোন্মাদ
(cōurjōnmad)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Catalan:
cleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Chinese Mandarin:
盜竊狂症 /盗窃狂症
(dàoqièkuángzhèng)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Chinese Mandarin:
盜竊癖 /盗窃癖
(dàoqièpǐ)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Czech:
kleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Danish:
kleptomani
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Dutch:
kleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Dutch:
steelzucht
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Esperanto:
kleptomanio
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Estonian:
kleptomaania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Finnish:
kleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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French:
cleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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French:
kleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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German:
Kleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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German:
Stehlsucht
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Greek:
κλεπτομανία
(kleptomanía)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Gujarati:
ચૌર્યોન્માદ
(cauryonmād)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Hindi:
चौर्योन्माद
(cauryonmād)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Hungarian:
kleptománia
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Icelandic:
stelsýki
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Interlingua:
kleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Italian:
cleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Japanese:
盗癖
(tōheki)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Japanese:
窃盗症
(settō-shō)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Korean:
도벽
(dobyeok)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Latin:
cleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Macedonian:
клептоманија
(kleptomanija)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Manx:
geidvian
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Māori:
mate tāhae
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Norwegian:
kleptomani
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Plautdietsch:
Stälsucht
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Polish:
kleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Portuguese:
cleptomania
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Romanian:
cleptomanie
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Russian:
клептома́ния
(kleptománija)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Scottish Gaelic:
miann gadachd
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Serbo-Croatian:
клептоманија
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Serbo-Croatian:
kleptomànija
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Spanish:
cleptomanía
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Sranan Tongo:
fufurubakru
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Swedish:
kleptomani
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Tagalog:
kulawin
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Thai:
โรคชอบหยิบฉวย
(rôok-chɔ̂ɔp-yìp-chǔai)
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Turkish:
kleptomani
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing
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Vietnamese:
trộm cắp cưỡng bức
— disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsessions with stealing