addiction
Etymology
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Etymology
From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio ("an adjudging, an award").
Pronunciation- IPA: /əˈdɪkʃən/
addiction
- (medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
- 2019, Thy Art is Murder, Chemical Christ:
- Do your lethal addictions to self-prescriptions numb the ache of the darkest days?
- 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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- His addiction was to courses vain.
- French: dépendance, addiction
- German: Abhängigkeit, Sucht
- Italian: dipendenza, assuefazione
- Portuguese: vício, adicção
- Russian: зави́симость
- Spanish: adicción, vicio, dependencia
- French: dépendance
- German: Abhängigkeit
- Italian: dipendenza
- Portuguese: adicção
- Russian: зави́симость
- Spanish: adicción
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