Usage examples (8)

• The literature's first mention of compulsive buying was in the early 1900s by two of Freud's disciples, Eugene Bleuler and Emil Kraepelin, who coined the term oniomania...
• Compulsive buying was first identified in 1915 by a German doctor who called it "oniomania" for the Greek term "onios," which means "for sale."
• But oniomania -- the clinical term for this behavior -- is no joke.
• Many of the actions that Cardella describes in detail are classic symptoms of oniomania.