Meanings
adjectivepyromanic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to or exhibiting pyromania.
Several pyromanic boys before coming to the Orthogenic School set fires because they so much enjoyed watching the pumps throw streams of water at burning buildings.
1954, Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic wounds: puberty rites and the envious male, page 186
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APA
pyromanic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyromanic
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“pyromanic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyromanic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pyromanic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyromanic.
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