1. 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
   - alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness 
2. An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
   - dipsomania, potomania

Derived forms: alcoholisms

Type of: cacoethes, drug addiction, mania, passion, white plague

Encyclopedia: Alcoholism

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