Usage examples (35)

• Because of this, we have the word "dipsomania," which the OED defines as:
• Her "dipsomania" took an unaggressive form, as she was by nature gentle and sweet; she simply used to shut herself in and drink until she would cry herself into a timid,...
• I probably got too depressed reading the comments that came before and, consequently, fed my own dipsomania.
• By the 16th century, the treatment for hydrophobia had already become a metaphor for dealing with dipsomania.