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
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
Some of the cases of hereditary dipsomania are almost surely of this character.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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 Rabindranath Tagore
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