kleptomania
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or monetary value.
Her kleptomania compelled her to pocket trinkets she neither wanted nor could explain, followed by intense shame.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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