alkoholism

Borrowed from German Alkoholismus, Polish alkoholizm, or Russian алкоголизм (alkogolizm).

alkoholism (uncountable)

1. (non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of alcoholism.
   • 1997 June 19, Klaus Günther Beck, “KZ-DEATH: PCHYSOMATIC DISEASE (NOT GAS)”, in alt.revisionism‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

     Yes, it is called alkoholism.

   • 1998 February 25, Elzbieta Maslak, “Lonely drinking”, in rec.food.drink‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

     What do you think about lonely drinking. Is it a sign of alkoholism ?

   • 1998 March 5, Bo Warming, “Moral Relativism: kz-Wilde and sado-masochism”, in alt.revisionism‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

     Diagnosis are said to be meningitis/alkoholism/syphilis/eardamage-from-fall-in-prison

   • 1999 June 27, Micke Ionas, “American vs Russian”, in fido7.ru.talk.english‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

     You're surely must know that americans mostly quiting smoking for now. And alkoholism is russian national problem.

alkohol +‎ -ism

• IPA^(key): /ɑlkohoˈlism/, [ɑlkoɦoˈlʲisˑm̥]
• Rhymes: -ism
• Hyphenation: al‧ko‧ho‧lism

alkoholism (genitive alkoholismi, partitive alkoholismi)

1. alcoholism

• alkoholism in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “alkoholism”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From alkohol +‎ -ism, coined by Swedish doctor Magnus Huss, along with New Latin alcoholismus.[1]

• IPA^(key): /alkʊ(hʊ)ˈlɪsm/

alkoholism c

1. alcoholism

• alkohol
• alkoholist, alkis (clipped form)