PHANEROMANIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Hypernyms ("phaneromania" is a kind of...):

cacoethes; mania; passion (an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action)

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