dipsomania
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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
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania, it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Tagore, Rabindranath
But I must note also that the moral results may be as important here as in the cases of inhibition of dipsomania and the like, already mentioned.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Some of the cases of hereditary dipsomania are almost surely of this character.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
