potomania

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An excessive and persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
  2. A hypoosmolality disease caused by excessive beer drinking.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

potomania

Etymology

From Latin pōtō (“to drink (liquor)”) + -mania.

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