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
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It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
No "psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But I must note also that the moral results may be as important here as in the cases of inhibition of dipsomania and the like, already mentioned.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Some of the cases of hereditary dipsomania are almost surely of this character.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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