Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈdɪkʃən/
addiction
- (medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
- The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
- A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
- A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- His addiction was to courses vain.
- French: dépendance, addiction
- German: Abhängigkeit, Sucht
- Italian: dipendenza
- Portuguese: viciado, vício, adicção
- Russian: зави́симость
- Spanish: adicción
- French: dépendance
- German: Abhängigkeit
- Italian: dipendenza
- Portuguese: adicção
- Russian: зави́симость
- Spanish: adicción
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