pyromania

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Studies have found that less than 10% of adults who start fires meet the criteria for pyromania.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

It’s a testament to Yeun’s commitment that Ben’s veneer of disquieting swagger never breaks: he yawns, laughs, speaks, smokes, shakes hands, and discloses his casual pyromania all with the same air of arrogant self-possession.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2019

In my memories of adolescence, beneath the constant ribbing and occasional pyromania, we had tremendous affection for one another.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2018

The term has been in common use since George Roby Dempster invented the contraption in 1936; evidently they’ve always been prone to pyromania or spontaneous combustion.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2018

Not with the fire department, which would know right away it was arson and dismiss it as another case of pyromania in a neighborhood crawling with firebugs.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez