bibliokleptomania means A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books. It carries an Arena rating of 1383, earned across 23 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “bibliokleptomania” is a great word
BIBLIOKLEPTOMANIA — [Noun] An irresistible, pathological compulsion to steal books. From the combining form biblio- (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon), "book") + kleptomania (from Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō), "to steal," + μανία (manía), "madness, frenzy"). Unlike "bibliomania," an obsessive but often lawful passion for acquisition, or "kleptomania," a general, unfocused urge to steal, bibliokleptomania fixates its madness on the bound volume. It is the surreptitious slide of a first edition into a coat lining, the phantom weight of a purloined psalm book in a pilgrim's satchel, and the spectral gap on the public library's shelf where a cherished volume once stood—a pathology that confuses possession with love, believing theft to be the only true form of reading.
Etymology
From biblio- + kleptomania.
noun
- A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
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