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POTOMANIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does potomania mean?

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

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• POTOMANIA (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 ("potomania" is a kind of...):

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

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