dipsomania
English
editEtymology
editFrom dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) + -mania.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdipsomania (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
editaddiction to alcohol
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periodic alcoholism
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Further reading
edit- dipsomania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editInternationalism (see English dipsomania).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdipsomania
- dipsomania (periodic alcoholism)
- Synonym: kausijuoppous
Declension
editInflection 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 dipsomaniain rare | |
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
editItalian
editEtymology
editBased on Ancient Greek δίψα (dípsa, “thirst”) + μανία (manía).
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ia
Noun
editdipsomania f (plural dipsomanie)
Related terms
editCategories:
- English terms prefixed with dipso-
- English terms suffixed with -mania
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə/5 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Diseases
- English terms with quotations
- en:Alcoholism
- en:Manias
- Finnish internationalisms
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑniɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑniɑ/5 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Rhymes:Italian/ia
- Rhymes:Italian/ia/5 syllables
- Italian 5-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns