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alcoholism

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of alcoholism

habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

  • a treatment center for those suffering from alcoholism
Synonyms of alcoholism

drunkenness, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness
Words Related to alcoholism

inebriety, intoxication

bibulousness, dipsomania

debauchery, dissoluteness
Near Antonyms of alcoholism

abstention, abstinence, teetotalism
Antonyms of alcoholism

sobriety, temperance

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