Opposed to alcohol or the use of alcohol; a person who opposes alcohol consumption.
Combines 'anti-' with 'alcoholic' (from Arabic 'al-kuhl', a fine powder, later applied to the spirit obtained by distillation). Emerged in the 19th century during temperance and prohibition movements.
The temperance movement created this word when millions of people organized against alcohol—'antialcoholic' became a political identity, showing how social movements literally build new words to name their values and members.
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