Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Dipsomania.

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  • noun An intense and persistent desire to drink excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages.

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  • noun an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

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Examples

  • It also, further, suffers from the same potomania that characterizes Marxist writings: a glaring paucity of clear thought and a tendency to use a thousand words instead of one.

    Seriously Sandeep 2009

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