dipsomania
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dipsomania
First recorded in 1835–45; from New Latin, from Greek díps(a) “thirst” + -o- connecting vowel + manía “enthusiasm (for)”; see origin at -o- -mania
Example Sentences
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No "psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania, it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Rabindranath Tagore
The parallel between dipsomania and bibliomania is very close and suggestive, and I have often thought that more should be made of it.
From Books and Bookmen by Ian Maclaren
Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
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