Oniomania (noun)
oh-nee-o-may-nee-a
An obsessive or uncontrollable urge to buy things.
From Greek ōnios ‘for sale’, from ōnos ‘price, purchase’: see -mania.
Example sentences
“All of it still with tags and receipts, it looks like a case of oniomania.”
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