Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, an irresistible morbid craving for intoxicating substances; dipsomania.
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We seem to have got rid of the mediæval plague and many of its typhoid congeners; but instead we have an increased amount of insanity, methomania, consumption, dyspepsia, and paralysis.
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We seem to have got rid of the mediaeval plague and many of its typhoid congeners; but instead we have an increased amount of insanity, methomania, consumption, dyspepsia, and paralysis.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
qms commented on the word methomania
Our Ernest loves words like calcanea
And other such strange miscellanea.
It’s the wordy’s affliction,
A nerdy addiction,
A potent, though weird, methomania.
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September 1, 2018