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POTOMANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potomania mean? 

POTOMANIA (noun)
  The noun POTOMANIA has 1 sense:

1. an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excessplay

  Familiarity information: POTOMANIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POTOMANIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Synonyms:

alcoholism; dipsomania; potomania

Hypernyms ("potomania" is a kind of...):

cacoethes; mania; passion (an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action)


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