dipsomania

For the record, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the noun “dipsomania” as “an uncontrollable craving for alcoholic liquors.”

For the record, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the noun dipsomania as “an uncontrollable craving for alcoholic liquors.”

In "Ironweed" the clinical diagnosis is dipsomania.

And Daniel Davis is sublime as the, well, dotty Selsdon Mowbray, who cannot manage to make his one entrance on time, and whose dipsomania rattles the nerves of all as they attempt, and fail, to keep him from hitting the bottle.

For those who wish to keep their dipsomania an inside event, the hotel’s indoor pool — built in 1905, and thus one of America’s first — is fed with mineral springs water heated to a pleasant, relaxing temperature.