cocainomania

See also: cocainomanía

English

Etymology

From cocaine +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Noun

cocainomania (uncountable)

  1. Cocaine addiction.
    • 1888, Henry M. Lyman, “Inebriety, Morphinism and Kindred Diseases”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World, volume III, Philadelphia, Pa., London: F. A. Davis, page 432:
      Freud, of Vienna, denies the danger of chronic cocainomania, except in cases of previous morphine or alcohol inebriety, or in cases predisposed to the various forms of inebriety.
    • 1922 October 5, “France Making Fight on Cocaine”, in Hilo Daily Tribune, volume 26, number 236, Hilo, Haw., page five:
      But, in order that the campaign against cocainomania may be effective, it is desirable that some form of international understanding on the subject should be reached.
    • 1929 February 10, “Cocainomania Latest Vice Giving Belgium Prohibition Agents Worry”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 118, number 118, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 4:
      Naturally, some of the drugs are sold in the country and are the reason for the increase of “cocainomania” here.

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Italian

Noun

cocainomania f (plural cocainomanie)

  1. addiction to cocaine

Portuguese

Etymology

From cocaína +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.kaˌĩ.no.maˈni.ɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.kaˌi.no.maˈni.a/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.kɐˌi.nu.mɐˈni.ɐ/

Noun

cocainomania f (uncountable)

  1. cocainomania (addiction to cocaine)

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