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phaneromania

phaneromania 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.

Noun

phaneromania (plural phaneromanias)

  1. 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.
  2. The constant preoccupation with some external part of the body, as plucking the beard, pulling the lobe of the ear, etc.

phaneromania meaning in Tamil

phaneromania in Tamil

வருடல் வெறி தைவரல் வெறி

Forms of phaneromania

pluralphaneromanias

Origin of phaneromania

Possibly from phanero- and -mania

Questions about phaneromania

What does phaneromania mean?
Phaneromania means 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.
What is phaneromania in Tamil?
Phaneromania in Tamil is வருடல் வெறி தைவரல் வெறி. See Phaneromania meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is phaneromania?
Phaneromania is a noun.
What is the plural of phaneromania?
The plural of phaneromania is phaneromanias.

Words near phaneromania in the dictionary

  1. phanerogamic
  2. phanerogamous
  3. phanerogams
  4. phanerogamy
  5. phaneroglossal
  6. phaneromania
  7. phaneromanias
  8. phaneromeric
  9. phaneron
  10. phanerons
  11. phanerophyte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phaneromania (page history and authors); phaneromania (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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