dipsomania
Compulsive alcohol craving
Dipsomania is an uncontrollable craving for alcohol—a dated term for what's now called alcoholism or alcohol use disorder.
The word emphasizes the compulsive, episodic nature of the craving rather than habitual drinking: His dipsomania would subside for months, then return with devastating force.
A person suffering from it is a dipsomaniac.
Impaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
- tipsinessLight intoxication state
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- sloshedVery intoxicated
hammered · plastered · wasted · sozzled · soused · besotted · fuddled · bibulous
Powerful urge to have
- urgeStrong inner drive
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- impulseSudden urge to act
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
dependency · longing · yearning · uncontrollable · irresistible · compulsive · insatiable · overwhelming
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- immoderationLack of self-restraint
- bingeingUncontrolled excessive intake
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
debauchery · profligacy · self-indulgence · unrestrained · insatiable · chronic · habitual · prodigality
State of needing another
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- relapseReturn to former illness
- detoxificationRemoving harmful substances internally
tolerance · abstinence · sobriety · recovery · twelve-step · sponsor · therapy · counseling
drunkenness
Impaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
- tipsinessLight intoxication state
- stuporSuspended sensibility
sloshed · hammered · plastered · wasted · sozzled · soused · besotted · fuddled · bibulous · potation
craving
Powerful urge to have
fixation · dependency · longing · yearning · uncontrollable · irresistible · compulsive · insatiable · overwhelming · periodic
overindulgence
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- immoderationLack of self-restraint
- bingeingUncontrolled excessive intake
dissipation · debauchery · profligacy · self-indulgence · unrestrained · insatiable · chronic · habitual · prodigality
dependence
State of needing another
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- relapseReturn to former illness
detoxification · tolerance · abstinence · sobriety · recovery · twelve-step · sponsor · therapy · counseling · support group
disorder
Absence of organization
- pathologyStudy of disease processes
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
psychiatric · clinical · morbid · chronic · psychopathology · etiology · prognosis · symptom · treatment
- addictionsaddiction, drug addiction, nicotine addiction, gambling, cocaine addiction
- Maniasbibliomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, megalomania
- Old Ailmentsconsumption, dropsy, ague, apoplexy, phthisis
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
dipsomaniasobriety
Unimpaired mental state
teetotalism · abstinence · temperance · soberness · dry
dipsomaniaself-control
Ability to restrain impulses
temperance · moderation · restraint · abstemiousness · willpower