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S: DB – http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/disease-health/differences-between-an-arsonist-and-a-pyromaniac/ (last access: 14 November 2017); PSYCHIAT – http://psychiatric-disorders.com/personality-disorders/impulse-control-disorders-pyromania/ (last access: 14 November 2017).
N: 1. adjective. 1855, from pyromania (1840, from pyro- “fire” + mania “madness, frenzy.”). As a noun from 1861.
2. Mental illness in which a person feels a strong wish to start fires.
3. (A person) driven by an uncontrollable urge to set fires.
4. A psychopathological firesetter, as contrasted to an arsonist, who starts fires to defraud or conceal a crime, or an incendiarist, who sets fires in rebellion against the established social or political order.
5. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the novel The Pyromaniac (1938) by Arthur Bruce Allen (1903-1975).
S: 1. OED – http://www.goo.gl/qCXq4g; http://www.goo.gl/FzqZGg (last access: 14 November 2017). 2. CD – https://goo.gl/5xxeHs (last access: 26 October 2017). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – http://www.goo.gl/b5QCdA (last access: 14 November 2017). 5. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pyromaniac-arthur-bruce-allen-early-1776788768 (last access: 15 November 2017).
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