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PHANEROMANIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phaneromania mean?
• PHANEROMANIA (noun)
The noun PHANEROMANIA has 1 sense:
1. an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
Familiarity information: PHANEROMANIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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