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PHANEROMANIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
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Hypernyms ("phaneromania" is a kind of...):
cacoethes; mania; passion (an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action)