- alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness - Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
--1 is a kind of drug addiction, white plague
- dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
--2 is a kind of mania, passion, cacoethes