addiction
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4.1
- noun
- /əˈdɪkʃən/
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adicción
- Her battle with addiction to prescription painkillers led her to seek help from a rehabilitation center.
- drug addiction
- nicotine addiction
- alcohol addiction
As most of you will know, I have a slight addiction to lipsticks.
- As most of you will know, I have a slight addiction to lipsticks.
- What is the most ridiculous sounding addiction that you've ever witnessed?
- Listen folks, this love addiction thing, it's not that common.
- My will, even if we stop the drug addiction, what's next?
- He knew I'd been in addiction for most of my life.
- Gambling is an addiction and it is unhealthy, all right?
- I mean, you know, I lost a friend to addiction six days ago.
- OK, Now when we talk about addiction, what do you mean?
- There's sex and love addiction meetings, SLAA it's called.
- We need to treat drug addiction as an addiction, as a health problem.
- It's, it's the addiction and it's the fun of it.
- Or was it the subject matter, like the addiction itself and other things?
- But she says that all addictions are the same in your brain.
Examples
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Gambling is an addiction and it is unhealthy, all right?
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As most of you will know, I have a slight addiction to lipsticks.
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I mean, you know, I lost a friend to addiction six days ago.
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Wow, this is going to start my addiction all over again.
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I know that sex, I know that sex addiction is a disease.
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I mean, my ice cream addiction has has gotten out of control.
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You said your mom struggled with addiction when you were a child.
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Were you aware that she was twice treated for alcohol addiction?
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I've lost so many friends to addiction.
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You know, Rory's struggled with addiction issues for a long, long time.
Synonyms
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6.0
A state of needing a drug or alcohol to feel normal
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5.5
A strong need to keep taking drugs or alcohol to feel normal
A state of being unable to stop using drugs or alcohol because you feel you need them
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.4
A long-lasting problem where someone cannot stop using drugs even though it harms them
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5.8
A strong need for heroin that makes a person keep using it even when it harms them
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4.1
A situation where a person needs caffeine and has headaches or feels annoyed when they stop
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Addiction comes from the Latin verb addicere, which meant 'to give over' or 'surrender'. This gives a strong image of someone 'giving themselves over' to a habit, so today an addiction is when a person cannot stop using something or doing something harmful.