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1. Insanity characterized by an impulse to set things on fire; a compulsion for incendiarism: A man was running through the forest and he seemed to be showing his pyromania because he was seen dropping lighted matches on the dry leaves.
2. An irrational desire to set destructive fires and to watch things burn up: The arsonist was accused of being possessed with pyromania again because she was known to have ignited buildings in the past and just stand nearby to see the flaming structures go up in smoke and she was seen in the vicinity of this new conflagration as she stood across the street from the building as it was being demolished.
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2. An irrational desire to set destructive fires and to watch things burn up: The arsonist was accused of being possessed with pyromania again because she was known to have ignited buildings in the past and just stand nearby to see the flaming structures go up in smoke and she was seen in the vicinity of this new conflagration as she stood across the street from the building as it was being demolished.
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mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally
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pyro-, pyr-
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“pyromania”
pyromania (usually not plural)
An insane desire to set fires. (1)
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