dipsomania

• A blurry Line separates my professional dipsomania from the swollen-livered lushes with rheumy eyes and a predilection for salty snacks and airplane-bottle booze. —  New York Press
• What is it, anyhow I told him, and found that Trescott's dipsomania was as well known to him as myself He's been throwing money to the fowls for a year or two," he remarked. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
• It may be a far more remote inheritance that has started the degenerative psychosis that results in either insanity, feeble-mindedness, dipsomania, or "general debility of character Heredity.=--Prof. E.G. Conklin says, "Heredity may be defined as the appearance in offspring of characters whose differential causes are found in germ cells." —  The Family and it's Members
• And with the victims of kleptomania, dipsomania, and other moral manias, it is well known that a sound whipping will often stop the nuisance. —  Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context