'Dipsomania' definitions:
Definition of 'dipsomania'
(from WordNet)
noun
An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess [syn: dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania]
Definition of 'Dipsomania'
From: GCIDE
- Dipsomania \Dip`so*ma"ni*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? thirst + ? mania.] (Med.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dipsomania'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a habit,
- abulia,
- acquired tolerance,
- acute alcoholism,
- addictedness,
- addiction,
- alcoholic addiction,
- alcoholic psychosis,
- alcoholism,
- amphetamine withdrawal symptoms,
- arteriosclerotic psychosis,
- barbiturate addiction,
- barbiturism,
- bottle nose,
- certifiability,
- chain smoking,
- chronic alcoholism,
- cocainism,
- crash,
- craving,
- delirium tremens,
- dementia paralytica,
- dependence,
- drug addiction,
- drug culture,
- drug dependence,
- ebriosity,
- folie du doute,
- functional psychosis,
- general paralysis,
- general paresis,
- grog blossom,
- habitual drunkenness,
- habituation,
- heavy drinking,
- metabolic psychosis,
- moral insanity,
- neurosis,
- nicotine addiction,
- oenomania,
- oinomania,
- organic psychosis,
- paralytic dementia,
- pathological drunkenness,
- physical dependence,
- presenile dementia,
- prison psychosis,
- problem drinking,
- psychological dependence,
- psychopathia,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychopathic condition,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychopathy,
- psychosis,
- senile dementia,
- senile psychosis,
- senility,
- sexual pathology,
- situational psychosis,
- syphilitic paresis,
- tolerance,
- toxic psychosis,
- withdrawal sickness,
- withdrawal symptoms