different between dipsomania vs dipsomaniac

English

Etymology

From dipso- +? -mania.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?ps?(?)?me?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?ni?

Noun

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

1. (medicine) Addiction to alcohol.
2. Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.

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• mapanioids

Finnish

Noun

dipsomania

1. dipsomania (periodic alcoholism)

   Synonym: kausijuoppous

Declension

Anagrams

• dipsomaani

Italian

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek ???? (dípsa, “thirst”) + ????? (manía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dip.so.ma?ni.a/
• Hyphenation: dip?so?ma?nì?a

Noun

dipsomania f (plural dipsomanie)

1. dipsomania

Related terms

• dipsomane

English

Etymology

dipso- +? -maniac

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?p.s?(?)?me?n.i.æk/
• Rhymes: -e?niæk

Noun

dipsomaniac (plural dipsomaniacs)

1. One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
   • 1909, G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, New York: John Lane, “The Progressive,” p. 54,^[1]

     The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

   • 1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 2,

     The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly English and American dipsomaniacs, paid, my dear, by their families to stay away.

2. A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): alcoholic, dipso, drunkard, lush, sot; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Antonyms

• (drunkard): abstainer, teetotaler; See also Thesaurus:teetotaler

Related terms

• dipsomania
• dipsomaniacal

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