oenomanian.
/ˌiːnə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌinəˈmeɪniə/ A passion for wine. Formerly: spec. a mania or craving for alcohol, dipsomania; (also) the mania resulting from intoxication, delirium tremens.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium tremens
delirium tremens1813
mania a potu1818
oenomania1852
D.T.1858
jump1879
jim-jams1885
jimmies1900
heebie-jeebies1923
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires
crack1601
plutomania1652
hippomania1780
hydromania1803
zoomania1807
craze1813
musicomania1833
musomania1833
nostomania1835
gamomania1841
dipsomania1843
mesmero-mania1843
theomania1853
opsomania1857
potomania1858
opiomania1868
polemomania1874
xenomania1879
oenomania1897
Pygmalionism1905
urolagnia1906
claustrophilia1926
Undinism1928
leprophilia1953
leprophilia1963
thanatophilia1974
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking
intemperancy1586
intemperance1617
bibacity1623
dipsomania1843
bibulousness1844
alcoholism1848
potomania1858
inebriacy1876
alcohol problem1879
drink-habit1890
alcohol abuse1891
toperism1896
oenomania1897
drinking-habit1899
bibulosity1901
drinking problem1957
substance abuse1967
1852 Southern Literary Messenger 18 133/2 Oinomania, or that form of mental derangement which is characterized by an uncontrollable appetite for alcoholic potations.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 871 Dipsomania or oinomania is a form of recurrent mania attended with impulsive drunkenness.
1978 Jrnl. Stud. Alcohol 39 1595 In those days ‘drunkard’ was the commonly used term, though medical specialists and other professionals sometimes referred to the condition as ‘oenomania’ (pronounced ‘winomania’) and ‘dipsomania’.
2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Food & Drink section) 14 The Australian urge to plant a vineyard went into overdrive (fuelled by tax incentives and national oenomania).
Derivatives
oenoˈmaniac n. a person affected with oenomania, one who has a passion for wine.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires > person
opsomaniac1842
hippomaniac1850
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
theomaniac1863
xenomaniac1879
bibliokleptomaniac1881
opiomaniac1889
nosophile1895
dipso1923
power maniac1943
leprophil1959
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1857 J. Miller Alcohol (1858) 20 A lady who had become a frightful oinomaniac.
1858 J. C. Bucknill & D. H. Tuke Man. Psychol. Med. 293 The thirst for drink..blindly leads the oinomaniac to a course against which his reason and his conscience alike rebel.
1977 T. Heald Just Desserts ii. 24 An elderly lobster-like gentleman... War hero, Francophile, bibliophile, oenomaniac and lecher of long-standing and renown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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