dipsomania

From dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) +‎ -mania.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

1. (pathology) Addiction to alcohol.
2. Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.
3. (by extension) A strong craving for something.
   • 1883 November 10, Basil [pseudonym; Richard Ashe King], “A Drawn Game”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume XXXII, number 780, page 507, column 1:

     A most ingenuous youth was Master Snape, round-eyed, round-cheeked, with an ever ready smooth and round unvarnished tale—a youth afflicted with a dipsomania for information.

   • 1919 March 31, W[ilhelm] N[ero] P[ilate] Barbellion [pseudonym; Bruce Frederick Cummings], “[1914] November 20”, in The Journal of a Disappointed Man, London: Chatto & Windus, published 27 April 1920 (5th impression), →OCLC, part II (In London), page 155:

     "You must regard my passion for painting," he began once more, "as a sort of dipsomania—I really can't help myself."

   • 2010, Scott Patterson, The Quants: How a Small Band of Math Wizards Took Over Wall St. And Nearly Destroyed It, New York, N.Y.: Crown Business, →ISBN, pages 199–200:

     Such a negative outcome seemed impossible to investors experiencing dot-com dipsomania in late 1999 and early 2000.

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Internationalism (see English dipsomania).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdipsoˌmɑniɑ/, [ˈdips̠o̞ˌmɑ̝niɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑniɑ
• Syllabification^(key): dip‧so‧ma‧ni‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): dipso‧mania

dipsomania

1. dipsomania (periodic alcoholism)

   Synonym: kausijuoppous

• dipsomaani

Based on Ancient Greek δίψα (dípsa, “thirst”) + μανία (manía).

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /di.pso.maˈni.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: di‧pso‧ma‧nì‧a

dipsomania f (plural dipsomanie)

1. dipsomania

• dipsomane