dipsomania
English edit
Etymology edit
From dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) + -mania.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)
- (pathology) Addiction to alcohol.
- Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.
- (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.
Translations edit
addiction to alcohol
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periodic alcoholism
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Further reading edit
- dipsomania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English dipsomania).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dipsomania
- dipsomania (periodic alcoholism)
- Synonym: kausijuoppous
Declension edit
Inflection of dipsomania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dipsomania | dipsomaniat | ||
genitive | dipsomanian | dipsomanioiden dipsomanioitten | ||
partitive | dipsomaniaa | dipsomanioita | ||
illative | dipsomaniaan | dipsomanioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dipsomania | dipsomaniat | ||
accusative | nom. | dipsomania | dipsomaniat | |
gen. | dipsomanian | |||
genitive | dipsomanian | dipsomanioiden dipsomanioitten dipsomaniainrare | ||
partitive | dipsomaniaa | dipsomanioita | ||
inessive | dipsomaniassa | dipsomanioissa | ||
elative | dipsomaniasta | dipsomanioista | ||
illative | dipsomaniaan | dipsomanioihin | ||
adessive | dipsomanialla | dipsomanioilla | ||
ablative | dipsomanialta | dipsomanioilta | ||
allative | dipsomanialle | dipsomanioille | ||
essive | dipsomaniana | dipsomanioina | ||
translative | dipsomaniaksi | dipsomanioiksi | ||
abessive | dipsomaniatta | dipsomanioitta | ||
instructive | — | dipsomanioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Based on Ancient Greek δίψα (dípsa, “thirst”) + μανία (manía).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ia
Noun edit
dipsomania f (plural dipsomanie)