potomania
An excessive and persistent desire to drink alcoholic beveragesAn excessive and persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)An excessive and persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
(uncountable)A hypoosmolality disease caused by excessive beer drinking.
Origin
From Latin pōtō (“to drink (liquor)”) + -mania.From Latin pōtō (“to drink (liquor)”) + -mania.
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess:dipsomaniaalcoholism
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedalcoholismB2
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable