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dipsomanias

dipsomanias is the plural of dipsomania.

Meaning of dipsomania

Noun

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

  1. Addiction to alcohol.
  2. Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.
  3. (broadly) A strong craving for something.
    • A most ingenuous youth was Master Snape, round-eyed, round-cheeked, with an ever ready smooth and round unvarnished tale—a youth afflicted with a dipsomania for information.1883 November 10, Basil [pseudonym; Richard Ashe King], “A Drawn Game”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume XXXII, number 780, page 507, column 1

Questions about dipsomanias

What is dipsomanias the plural of?
Dipsomanias is the plural of dipsomania.

Words near dipsomanias in the dictionary

  1. dipsology
  2. dipsomania
  3. dipsomaniac
  4. dipsomaniacal
  5. dipsomaniacs
  6. dipsomanias
  7. dipsopathic
  8. dipsopathy
  9. dipsophobia
  10. dipsos
  11. dipsosis

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