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dipsomania

noun as in alcoholism

noun as in craving

noun as in drunkenness

noun as in inebriation

noun as in inebriety

noun as in insobriety

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Example Sentences

What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure.

I dislike to hear drunkenness called dipsomania, as I so often do; but I do not therefore say that dipsomania is only drunkenness.

Dr. Curtis did not mean by religio-mania religious appreciation; neither did he mean by dipsomania, temperate use of stimulants.

Probably, with the low cunning and fallacious reasoning of dipsomania, he had pouched her savings with that very thought in mind.

Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania.

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On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dipsomania, such as: bag, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, and fixation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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