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trichotillomania

trichotillomania noun: a medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.

Noun

trichotillomania (uncountable)

  1. A medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.

trichotillomania meaning in Tamil and Arabic

trichotillomania in Tamil

மயிர்பறிப்பு வெறி

trichotillomania in Arabic

disorder
هوس نتف الشعر

Synonyms of trichotillomania

Origin of trichotillomania

From tricho- + Ancient Greek τίλλω (tíllō, “I pull out, pluck”) + -mania.

Words formed from trichotillomania

Words that rhyme with trichotillomania

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Questions about trichotillomania

What does trichotillomania mean?
Trichotillomania means a medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.
What is trichotillomania in Tamil?
Trichotillomania in Tamil is மயிர்பறிப்பு வெறி. See Trichotillomania meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trichotillomania?
Trichotillomania is a noun.

Words near trichotillomania in the dictionary

  1. trichothecenes
  2. trichothiodystrophic
  3. trichothiodystrophies
  4. trichothiodystrophy
  5. trichotic
  6. trichotillomania
  7. trichotillomanic
  8. trichotomic
  9. trichotomies
  10. trichotomise
  11. trichotomised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trichotillomania (page history and authors); trichotillomania (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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