ALCOHOLISM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
   Synonym(s)
   • dipsomania (what does dipsomania mean?)
   • potomania (what does potomania mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) alcoholism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • mania (what does mania mean?)
   • passion (what does passion mean?)
   • cacoethes (what does cacoethes mean?)
2. Meaning
   • Habitual intoxication
   • prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
   Synonym(s)
   • alcohol addiction (what does alcohol addiction mean?)
   • drunkenness (what does drunkenness mean?)
   • inebriation (what does inebriation mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) alcoholism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • drug addiction (what does drug addiction mean?)
   • white plague (what does white plague mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • intoxicate (what does intoxicate mean?)
   • soak (what does soak mean?)
   • inebriate (what does inebriate mean?)
   • souse (what does souse mean?)
   • soak (what does soak mean?)
   • inebriate (what does inebriate mean?)
   • hit it up (what does hit it up mean?)