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.
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Dipsomania
//ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə//
Synonyms for "dipsomania" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
habithabitual drunkennesshabituationheavy drinkingmetabolic psychosismoral insanityneurosisnicotine addictionoenomaniaoinomaniaorganic psychosisparalytic dementiapathological drunkennessphysical dependencepresenile dementiaprison psychosisproblem drinkingpsychological dependencepsychopathiapsychopathia sexualis
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
16 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- алкохолизъм noun (addiction to alcohol)
Catalan
1 entries- dipsomania noun (addiction to alcohol)
Esperanto
1 entries- dipsomanio noun (periodic alcoholism)
Estonian
1 entries- dipsomaania noun (addiction to alcohol)
Finnish
4 entries- alkoholismi noun (addiction to alcohol)
- dipsomania noun (periodic alcoholism)
- juoppous noun (addiction to alcohol)
- kausijuoppous noun (periodic alcoholism)
French
1 entries- dipsomanie noun (addiction to alcohol)
German
1 entries- Dipsomanie noun (addiction to alcohol)
Greek
1 entries- διψομανία noun (addiction to alcohol)
Kazakh
1 entries- дипсомания noun (periodic alcoholism)
Manx
2 entries- ard-phaays alcoalagh noun (addiction to alcohol)
- sheer-veshtallys noun (addiction to alcohol)
Russian
1 entries- дипсома́ния noun (periodic alcoholism)
Swedish
1 entries- dipsomani noun (addiction to alcohol)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
"You must regard my passion for painting," he began once more, "as a sort of dipsomania—I really can't help myself."
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Such a negative outcome seemed impossible to investors experiencing dot-com dipsomania in late 1999 and early 2000.
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