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dipsomania

[dip-suh-may-nee-uh, -soh-] / ˌdɪp səˈmeɪ ni ə, -soʊ- /










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No "psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania.

From Time Magazine Archive

The parallel between dipsomania and bibliomania is very close and suggestive, and I have often thought that more should be made of it. 

From Books and Bookmen by Ian Maclaren

Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley

Tell me, how soon can you cure a man of—of dipsomania?…

From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers




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