cocainomania

See also: cocainomanía

English

Etymology

From cocaine +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Noun

cocainomania (uncountable)

1. Cocaine addiction.
   • 1888, Henry M. Lyman, “Inebriety, Morphinism and Kindred Diseases”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World, volume III, Philadelphia, Pa., London: F. A. Davis, page 432:

     Freud, of Vienna, denies the danger of chronic cocainomania, except in cases of previous morphine or alcohol inebriety, or in cases predisposed to the various forms of inebriety.

   • 1922 October 5, “France Making Fight on Cocaine”, in Hilo Daily Tribune, volume 26, number 236, Hilo, Haw., page five:

     But, in order that the campaign against cocainomania may be effective, it is desirable that some form of international understanding on the subject should be reached.

   • 1929 February 10, “Cocainomania Latest Vice Giving Belgium Prohibition Agents Worry”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 118, number 118, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 4:

     Naturally, some of the drugs are sold in the country and are the reason for the increase of “cocainomania” here.

Synonyms

• cocainism

Related terms

• cocainomaniac

Translations

cocaine addiction — see cocainism

Italian

Noun

cocainomania f (plural cocainomanie)

1. addiction to cocaine

Related terms

• cocainomane

Portuguese

Etymology

From cocaína +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.kaˌĩ.no.maˈni.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.kaˌĩ.no.maˈni.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.kaˌi.no.maˈni.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.kɐˌi.nu.mɐˈni.ɐ/

Noun

cocainomania f (uncountable)

1. cocainomania (addiction to cocaine)

Related terms

• cocainómano / cocainômano

Further reading

• “cocainomania”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “cocainomania”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cocainomania”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cocainomania”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025