Meanings
- uncountableAn addiction to ether intoxication.
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 1671 more example
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
Origin
Translations
Catalan eteromania
- eteromaniaether addiction
French éthéromanie
- éthéromanieether addiction
Italian eteromania
- eteromaniaether addiction
Polish eteromania
- eteromaniaether addiction
Portuguese eteromania
- eteromaniaether addiction
Romanian eteromanie
- eteromanieether addiction
Spanish eteromanía
- eteromaníaether addiction
Cite this entry
etheromania. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/etheromania
“etheromania.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/etheromania. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “etheromania,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/etheromania.
Source: etheromania on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.