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DIPSOMANIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does dipsomania mean?

• DIPSOMANIA (noun)
The noun DIPSOMANIA has 1 sense:

1. an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

Familiarity information: DIPSOMANIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIPSOMANIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Synonyms:

dipsomania; potomania; alcoholism

Hypernyms ("dipsomania" is a kind of...):

cacoethes; mania; passion (an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action)

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