dipsomania Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of dipsomania In English

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  • It may be a far more remote inheritance that has started the degenerative psychosis that results in either insanity, feeble-mindedness, dipsomania, or "general debility of character." 

  • This kind of dipsomania lives by increasing its doses.

  • Some are also free words, such as "mania" in "dipsomania" and "phobia" in "claustrophobia".

  • Many themes are explored in the lives of his family, particularly luxurious frivolity (especially in the 1920s) and dipsomania.

  • Alienists created a whole new series of diagnoses that highlighted single, impulsive behavior, such as kleptomania, dipsomania, pyromania, and nymphomania.

  • The idea of dipsomania is important for its historical role in promoting a disease theory of chronic drunkenness.

  • Dipsomania is occasionally still used to describe a particular condition of periodic, compulsive bouts of alcohol intake.

  • In the 19th century, dipsomania was a variety of alcohol-related problems, most of which are known today as alcoholism.

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