bibulosityn.
Addiction to tippling.
ΘΚΠ
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
1901 H. Rashdall & R. S. Rait New College, Oxf. 207 The common-room which Spence occasionally adorned could not have been wholly given up to uncultivated bibulosity.
Derivatives
ˈbibulousness n. (cf. bibulous adj. 1, 2).
ΘΚΠ
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
1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 125 Their colour;..their bibulousness; all these properties conspire to the determination of the temperature of a given soil.
1928 Daily Express 2 Oct. 6 He caught the man under the arm and affected a slight bibulousness himself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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