etheromania
nounEtymology From ether + -o- + -mania.
1
An addiction to ether intoxication.
- 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.1985, Sidney Cohen, The substance abuse problems, volume 2, Routledge, page 181:
- 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.1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 167:
- Related terms
- etheromaniac