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alkoholism

alkoholism is the misspelling of alcoholism.

Meaning of alcoholism

Noun

alcoholism (usually uncountable, plural alcoholisms)

  1. (usually) A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.
    • chronic alcoholism
    Synonyms:
    dipsomania
  2. (usually) Acute alcohol poisoning.

Origin of alkoholism

Borrowed from German Alkoholismus, Polish alkoholizm, or Russian алкоголи́зм (alkogolízm).

Questions about alkoholism

What is alkoholism the misspelling of?
Alkoholism is the misspelling of alcoholism.

Words near alkoholism in the dictionary

  1. Alkires
  2. alkitotle
  3. alkitotles
  4. Alkmaar
  5. Alkman
  6. alkoholism
  7. Alkoran
  8. Alkoranic
  9. alkoxide
  10. alkoxides
  11. alkoxy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alkoholism (page history and authors); alcoholism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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