Recent Examples on the WebAfter her exercise in pyromania, Serena stays with her mother.—Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 7 June 2019 And finding signs of past fire-lighting on tools used for other purposes may offer the best window into the origins of humanity's collective pyromania.—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 July 2018 Best-selling author Margaret George has just published a novel repackaging the Roman emperor Nero, whose name has evoked mayhem and recreational pyromania for the past 2,000 years, as a misunderstood stripling.—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 5 May 2017
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Word History
Etymology
pyro- + -mania, probably after German Pyromanie or French pyromanie
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