Dipsomania
/ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
"Dipsomania" in a Sentence (3 examples)
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.
"You must regard my passion for painting," he began once more, "as a sort of dipsomania—I really can't help myself."
Such a negative outcome seemed impossible to investors experiencing dot-com dipsomania in late 1999 and early 2000.