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cleptomania

cleptomania is the dated form of kleptomania.

Meaning of kleptomania

Noun

kleptomania (countable and uncountable, plural kleptomanias)

  1. A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.

Questions about cleptomania

What is cleptomania the dated form of?
Cleptomania is the dated form of kleptomania.

Words near cleptomania in the dictionary

  1. cleptobiosis
  2. cleptobiotic
  3. cleptocracies
  4. cleptocracy
  5. cleptohematophagy
  6. cleptomania
  7. cleptomaniac
  8. cleptomaniacs
  9. cleptoparasite
  10. cleptoparasites
  11. cleptoparasitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleptomania (page history and authors); kleptomania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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