alcoholism

Noun

Meaning

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

alcohol addiction drunkenness inebriation alcohol abuse dipsomania potomania alcoholic addiction substance abuse drug abuse drinking drink dependence habit alcoholic addiction
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Antonyms

ascetic sobriety abstinent abstainer prohibitionist soberness
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Hypernyms

mania passion drug addiction cacoethes white plague

Related terms

alcoholic alcoholize alco alky alcoholise nonalcoholic

Phrases with the word

acute alcoholism cure alcoholism

Examples

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. Steven Soderbergh

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. Anton Chekhov

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. Vance Havner

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. Craig Ferguson

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover. Craig Ferguson

Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Close letter words and terms

alcoholimeter alcoholisation alcoholise alcoholism abuse alcoholist alcoholizable