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means A chronic medical condition marked by compulsive, uncontrollable drinking despite harm to health, relationships, or life.

from The word 'alcohol' traces back to Arabic al-kuḥl, originally the fine powdered antimony used as eye makeup — chemists later applied the term to any distilled 'essence,' and it settled on the spirit in drink. The suffix '-ism' (Greek, denoting a practice, condition, or state) was bolted on in the 1800s, coined specifically to reframe habitual drunkenness as a medical condition rather than a moral failing — a genuinely progressive idea for its time that's still catching up in practice.