etheromania

etheromania

English

Etymology

ether +‎ -o- +‎ -mania

Noun

etheromania (uncountable)

1. an addiction to ether intoxication
   • 1985 Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, p181

     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, p167

     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.

Related terms

• etheromaniac