opiomanian.
/ˌəʊpɪə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌoʊpioʊˈmeɪniə/ Now rare.
An uncontrollable craving for opium.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > to or for specific drug
opiomania1868
morphiomania1876
etheromania1883
etherism1887
morphinomania1887
heroin addiction1903
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
1868 H. B. Day Opium Habit 300 Pre-eminently valuable is it in the treatment of delirium tremens and in every stage of the opiomania.
1882 Sat. Rev. 29 July 160/2 Dr. Hubbard's treatise on what he calls Opiumania and Dipsomania.
1990 Soviet Stud. 42 466 All this contributed to the spread of opiomania in Turkmenia in the pre-revolutionary time.
Derivatives
opioˈmaniac n. rare a person with opiomania.
ΘΚΠ
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
1889 Leisure Hour 371 Young, rich, with a good position in the county..in love with her, and—an opiomaniac.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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