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etheromania

etheromania noun: an addiction to ether intoxication.

Noun

etheromania (uncountable)

  1. An addiction to ether intoxication.
    • 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.1985, Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, page 181
    • 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.1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 167

Origin of etheromania

From ether + -o- + -mania.

Questions about etheromania

What does etheromania mean?
Etheromania means an addiction to ether intoxication.
What part of speech is etheromania?
Etheromania is a noun.

Words near etheromania in the dictionary

  1. ethernet
  2. Ethernet card
  3. Ethernet cards
  4. ethernets
  5. etherol
  6. etheromania
  7. etheromaniac
  8. etheromaniacs
  9. etherophone
  10. etherophones
  11. etherotopic

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