dipsomania
名词 n.
英 /ˌdɪpsə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
英文释义
名词 n.
- Addiction to alcohol.
- Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.
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A strong craving for something.
— 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.
词形变化
词源
From dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) + -mania.
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