Dipsomania [noun]

Definition of Dipsomania:

dependence on illegal substance

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Opposite/Antonyms of Dipsomania:

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Sentence/Example of Dipsomania:

What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure.

I dislike to hear drunkenness called dipsomania, as I so often do; but I do not therefore say that dipsomania is only drunkenness.

Dr. Curtis did not mean by religio-mania religious appreciation; neither did he mean by dipsomania, temperate use of stimulants.

Probably, with the low cunning and fallacious reasoning of dipsomania, he had pouched her savings with that very thought in mind.

Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania.

This inebriate's first resistance to his dipsomania was interpreted darkly, with sundry shrugs and winks and gestures.

It is, however, as an authority on dipsomania that he is best known.

Some of the cases of hereditary dipsomania are almost surely of this character.

From this it is but a step to dipsomania, which can often be cured.

Then we called it an instance of "hereditary dipsomania," and were more or less consoled by the classification.