alcoholism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun 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
noun an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

From alcohol + -ism. Derived from New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by the Swedish professor of medicine Magnus Huss in 1849.

I took this to be the ravings of alcoholism." — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
But I should think you would try something more intelligent than producing jaundice with alcoholism.” “With what?” “With alcoholism. — A farewell to arms, Ernest Hemingway
The lesion, however well localized it seems, is transmitted by the same process as, for instance, the taint of alcoholism. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri

alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness

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