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dipsomania

[ dip-suh-mey-nee-uh, -soh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

(no longer in technical use) an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drinks.

dipsomania

/ ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə /

First recorded in 1835–45; from New Latin, from Greek díps(a) “thirst” + -o- connecting vowel + manía “enthusiasm (for)”; -o- -mania

C19: New Latin, from Greek dipsa thirst + -mania

What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure.

I dislike to hear drunkenness called dipsomania, as I so often do; but I do not therefore say that dipsomania is only drunkenness.

Dr. Curtis did not mean by religio-mania religious appreciation; neither did he mean by dipsomania, temperate use of stimulants.

Probably, with the low cunning and fallacious reasoning of dipsomania, he had pouched her savings with that very thought in mind.

Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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