- 1縱火癖、放火癖（指病，不是人；人是 pyromaniac）
Pyromania is the illness, not the person. It names a strong, hard-to-control wish to start , treated as a mental illness. The person who has it is a pyromaniac. Newspapers and films sometimes stick pyromania on anyone who likes matches or ; that is loose talk. Doctors mean something much narrower: starting the fire is the point itself, not a way to hide a crime or get money. Though actually, casual English mixes the two words, and you may hear he's a pyromania. That slip is common, but it treats the illness-word as if it were the person.
組成From pyro- (“fire”) + -mania (“madness, craze”).
同家族的字
- pyromaniacthe person who has this illness
- maniathe same “craze” ending as in kleptomania
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pyromanianoun/ˌpaɪɹə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesA compulsive disorder characterized by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires.
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