heroinism
- noun
- /ˈhɛroʊɪnɪzəm/
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- After years of heroinism, he finally sought help to overcome his addiction.
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The documentary explored the devastating effects of heroinism on families and communities.
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Addiction to heroinism can lead to severe health problems and a tumultuous lifestyle.
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Significantly, the important poetic structures of "heroinism" were the very ones to give way in her later work and finally crumble in her journalism.
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Together they embody the "heroinism" in Gay's bid for poetic authority.
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Gay also strove for literary "heroinism" in her occasional poetry, where another equally powerful female model emerges: Joan of Arc.
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Her affective numbness stems directly from unrealized "heroinism," a misrepresentation:
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Finally, if Corinne has become a problematic figure in Gay's poetry, Napoline makes a final gesture to accommodate Staelien's "heroinism."
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Her self-sacrifice and the grand dimensions of her performance inspired in Gay's work what Ellen Moers has termed "heroinism," a "literary feminism" that reveals the "woman writer's
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The changing terms of Gay's "literary heroinism" are clearly illustrated both in the acerbic, witty verses of the poem and in the bitter suicide letter Napoline leaves for the poet-narrator.
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A strong need for heroin that makes a person keep using it even when it harms them
A strong need to use heroin or morphine that is very hard to stop
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Etymology
Heroinism comes from the drug heroin and the ending -ism, which marks a 'condition' or 'practice', like in tourism. The drug heroin was named because early makers thought it was heroic and 'very strong' as a medicine, so heroinism is the 'condition' of using that powerful drug, often meaning addiction.