theinism
English edit
Etymology edit
By surface analysis, theine + -ism.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
theinism (uncountable)
- (pathology) theism
- 1946 January, Hubert J. Norman, “Desultory thoughts on alcohol and on drugs”, in British Journal of Inebriety, volume 43, number 2, London: Society for the Study of Inebriety, , page 50:
- […] this special form of addiction is described as theism—which word has not, of course, any connection with the similar theological term but is derived from theine, […] Perhaps a better form of the word, in order to avoid ambiguity, is theinism.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:theinism.
References edit
- "theinism", in George M. Gould, R J E Scott, The practitioner's medical dictionary, 3rd ed., rev. and enl., Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son, 1919, p. 883. →OCLC.