different between etheromania vs etheromaniac

English

ether +? -o- +? -mania

etheromania (uncountable)

an addiction to ether intoxication
- 1985 Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, p181
  It accounts for the etheromania in certain countries in Ireland over a hundred years ago, the large-scale sniffing of shoemakers’ glue in the prison in Monterrey, Mexico, and for many other epidemics of intoxicant abuse by a large portion of the exposed population.
- 1998 Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, p167
  It is not considered as becoming in the female sex to consume large quantities of concentrated alcohol habitually, and for this reason women contribute a large contingent to etheromania.

ether +? -o- +? -maniac

etheromaniac (plural etheromaniacs)

A person addicted to ether intoxication
- 1971 Paul Van Ostaijen, Patriotism, Inc and Other Tales, Univ of Massachusetts Press, p137
  You can clearly see that a dancer etheromaniac, when she is high, has a different conception of space – it is much more expansive than usual.
- 1998 Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, p169
  In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients.

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