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English
Etymology
From ether + -o- + -mania.
Noun
etheromania (uncountable)
- An addiction to ether intoxication.
1985, Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, page 181: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.
1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 167: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.
Translations
Portuguese
Noun
etheromania f (uncountable)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of eteromania.