dipsomania
(no longer in technical use) an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drinks.
Origin of dipsomania
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How to use dipsomania in a sentence
What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure.
London's Underworld | Thomas HolmesI dislike to hear drunkenness called dipsomania, as I so often do; but I do not therefore say that dipsomania is only drunkenness.
Degeneracy | Eugene S. TalbotDr. Curtis did not mean by religio-mania religious appreciation; neither did he mean by dipsomania, temperate use of stimulants.
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought | Horace FletcherProbably, with the low cunning and fallacious reasoning of dipsomania, he had pouched her savings with that very thought in mind.
Joan Thursday | Louis Joseph VanceSpeaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania.
The Curse of Education | Harold E. Gorst
British Dictionary definitions for dipsomania
/ (ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə) /
a compulsive desire to drink alcoholic beverages
Origin of dipsomania
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