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n. An obsessive impulse to steal regardless of economic need.

n. a psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.

n. A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.

n. See cleptomania, cleptomaniac.

n. an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive

""Then," resumed Roger, who had evidently been pondering what Lady Bernard had previously said, "you would consider what is called kleptomania as the impulse to steal transmitted by a thief-ancestor?""

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kleptomaniac    kleptomaniacal   

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