noun. An insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages.

noun. In pathol, an irresistible and insatiable craving for intoxicants.

noun. A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

noun. an addiction to alcohol

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

"Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs."

cacoethes  mania  passion  

desease  fusel  headach  hungering  pyromania  

a habit  abulia  acquired tolerance  acute alcoholism  addictedness