dipsomania

English

Etymology

From dipso- +‎ -mania.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

1. (pathology) Addiction to alcohol.
2. Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.

Translations

addiction to alcohol

• Bulgarian: алкохолизъм (bg) m (alkoholizǎm)
• Estonian: dipsomaania (et)
• Finnish: alkoholismi (fi), juoppous (fi)
• French: dipsomanie (fr) f
• German: Dipsomanie (de) f
• Greek: διψομανία f (dipsomanía)
• Manx: ard-phaays alcoalagh m, sheer-veshtallys m
• Swedish: dipsomani (sv) c

periodic alcoholism

• Esperanto: dipsomanio (eo)
• Finnish: kausijuoppous, dipsomania
• Kazakh: дипсомания (dipsomaniä)
• Russian: дипсома́ния (ru) f (dipsománija)

Anagrams

• mapanioids

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English dipsomania).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdipsomɑniɑ/, [ˈdips̠o̞ˌmɑniɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑniɑ
• Syllabification^(key): dip‧so‧ma‧ni‧a

Noun

dipsomania

1. dipsomania (periodic alcoholism)

   Synonym: kausijuoppous

Declension

Inflection of dipsomania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		dipsomania	dipsomaniat
genitive		dipsomanian	dipsomanioiden dipsomanioitten
partitive		dipsomaniaa	dipsomanioita
illative		dipsomaniaan	dipsomanioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		dipsomania	dipsomaniat
accusative	nom.	dipsomania	dipsomaniat
	gen.	dipsomanian
genitive		dipsomanian	dipsomanioiden dipsomanioitten dipsomaniainrare
partitive		dipsomaniaa	dipsomanioita
inessive		dipsomaniassa	dipsomanioissa
elative		dipsomaniasta	dipsomanioista
illative		dipsomaniaan	dipsomanioihin
adessive		dipsomanialla	dipsomanioilla
ablative		dipsomanialta	dipsomanioilta
allative		dipsomanialle	dipsomanioille
essive		dipsomaniana	dipsomanioina
translative		dipsomaniaksi	dipsomanioiksi
instructive		—	dipsomanioin
abessive		dipsomaniatta	dipsomanioitta
comitative		—	dipsomanioineen

Possessive forms of dipsomania (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	dipsomaniani	dipsomaniamme
2nd person	dipsomaniasi	dipsomanianne
3rd person	dipsomaniansa

Anagrams

• dipsomaani

Italian

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek δίψα (dípsa, “thirst”) + μανία (manía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.pso.maˈni.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: di‧pso‧ma‧nì‧a

Noun

dipsomania f (plural dipsomanie)

1. dipsomania

Related terms

• dipsomane