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onychotillomania

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ony-chotil-lo-ma-nia
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A compulsion for picking and tearing at one's fingernails or toenails.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”) (compare onycho-) + τίλλω (tíllō, “to pluck”) + -mania.

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Frequently Paired Words

dermatillomania trichotillomania

Questions

What does onychotillomania mean?
A compulsion for picking and tearing at one's fingernails or toenails.
Where does onychotillomania come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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