etheromania en · NOUN
Etymology
From ether + -o- + -mania.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An addiction to ether intoxication.
It accounts for the etheromania in certain countries in Ireland over a hundred years ago, the large-scale sniffing of shoemakers’ glue in the prison in Monterrey, Mexico, and for many other epidemics of intoxicant abuse by a large portion of the exposed population.
1985, Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, page 181:It is not considered as becoming in the female sex to consume large quantities of concentrated alcohol habitually, and for this reason women contribute a large contingent to etheromania.
1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 167:
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Translations (7)
es eteromanía (ether addiction) · pl eteromania (ether addiction) · ro eteromanie (ether addiction) · ca eteromania (ether addiction) · pt eteromania (ether addiction) · it eteromania (ether addiction) · fr éthéromanie (ether addiction)