morbid tendency

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• morbid — [môr′bid] adj. [L morbidus, sickly, diseased < morbus, disease < IE base * mer , to rub, wear away, destroy > MARE3, L mortarium, OIr meirb, lifeless] 1. of, having, or caused by disease; unhealthy; diseased 2. resulting from or as from… …   English World dictionary

• necromania — 1. A morbid tendency to dwell with longing on death. 2. A morbid attraction to dead bodies. [necro + G. mania, frenzy] * * * n. morbid desire for a dead body or bodies. This may be necrophilism, but the attraction is sometimes not sexual. A… …   Medical dictionary

• Suicide — • The act of one who causes his own death, either by positively destroying his own life, as by inflicting on himself a mortal wound or injury, or by omitting to do what is necessary to escape death, as by refusing to leave a burning house… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• ecdysiasm — A morbid tendency to undress to produce sexual desire in others. [fr. G. ekdyo, to remove one s clothes] * * * ec·dy·si·asm (ek diґse az″əm) [Gr. ekdyein to strip off one s clothes] an abnormal tendency to take off one s clothes in… …   Medical dictionary

• kleptomania — A disorder of impulse control characterized by a morbid tendency to steal. [G. klepto, to steal, + mania, insanity] * * * klep·to·ma·nia .klep tə mā nē ə, nyə n a persistent neurotic impulse to steal esp. without economic motive * * * n. a… …   Medical dictionary

• witzelsucht — A morbid tendency to pun, make poor jokes, and tell pointless stories, while being oneself inordinately entertained thereby. [Ger. witzeln, to affect wit, + Sucht, mania] * * * Wit·zel·sucht vit səl .zu̇kt n excessive facetiousness and… …   Medical dictionary

• bibliokleptomania — bib·lio·klep·to·ma·nia .bib lē ō .klep tə mā nē ə, nyə n kleptomania involving a morbid tendency to steal books …   Medical dictionary

• erotomaniac — n. person with excessive or morbid tendency to erotic thoughts and behavior; person with illusional belief that he is involved in a relationship with another of unattainable status …   English contemporary dictionary

• erotomaniacs — n. person with excessive or morbid tendency to erotic thoughts and behavior; person with illusional belief that he is involved in a relationship with another of unattainable status …   English contemporary dictionary

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary