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noun
An uncontrollable impulse to pick at a spot or growth on one's body; the habit of picking at scabs, biting one's nails, or picking pimples.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The constant preoccupation with some external part of the body, as plucking the beard, pulling the lobe of the ear, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mania, passion, cacoethes
History
Possibly from phanero- and -mania
