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Alcoholism

//ˈælkə(ˌ)hɔˌlɪzəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning. uncountable, usually

    "chronic alcoholism"

  2. 2
    an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess wordnet
  3. 3
    Acute alcohol poisoning. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From alcohol + -ism. Derived from New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by the Swedish professor of medicine Magnus Huss in 1849.

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