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pyromania
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pyromania
Psychiatry the uncontrollable impulse and practice of setting things on fire

pyromania [‚pī·rō′mā·nē·ə]
(psychology)
A monomania for setting or watching fires.


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Michael's father, a local fire chief, is a pyromaniac.
The occupation has changed its face and today every municipal clerk has become a pyromaniac playing with fire who allows himself to pour gasoline on the fire of the bloody conflict between the two peoples.
Julio Santana is a laborer on a demolition crew by day, university student by night, and pyromaniac in the wee hours of the morning.
 
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