narcomanian.
/ˌnɑːkə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌnɑrkəˈmeɪniə/ Medicine. Now rare.
Originally (in the terminology of N. Kerr): uncontrollable craving for intoxication by alcohol or narcotic drugs (now disused). Later: addiction to or abuse of narcotic drugs.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun]
addiction1779
addictedness1788
narcomania1865
yen1876
drug addiction1881
yen-yen1886
drug abuse1903
oil burner1962
Jones1968
1865 N. Kerr Inebriety ii. 34 I propose to call this abnormal state, especially in its marked maniacal forms, by the comprehensive name—Narcomania.
1896 Daily News 19 June 6/3 No man is better acquainted with all developments of narcomania than Dr. Norman Kerr.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 5/2 The objects of the association are..to educate the public by every means to realise that dipso and narco mania are definite maladies requiring therapeutic, sympathetic, and individual treatment.
1976 Social Sci. & Med. 10 77 In economically more developed Sweden.., the rates of narcomania, neurosis, depression, and senility are higher than in..Finland.
1996 Human Physiol. 22 437/2 The right–left asymmetry in patients with opiumism was more pronounced than in patients with dimedrol-opium narcomania.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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