addiction
/əˈdɪkˌʃən/
addiction noun: a state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
Noun
addiction (countable and uncountable, plural addictions)
- A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
- Do your lethal addictions to self-prescriptions numb the ache of the darkest days?2019, “Chemical Christ”, in Human Target (Deathcore), performed by Thy Art is Murder
- 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.
- His addiction was to courses vain.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...
addiction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
addiction in Hindi
- the state of being addicted
- व्यसन vyasan
addiction in Tamil
- மீளாவேட்கை, தீய பழக்கங்களுக்கு அடிமையாதல், பழக்க அடிமைத்தனம், பழக்கப்பற்று, போதை மருந்துகள், ஆல்கஹால்
addiction in Marathi
- व्यसनाधीनता, व्यसन
addiction in Urdu
- addiction
- نشہ naśa
More languagesFewer languages
- addiction in Bengali
- আসক্তি
- addiction in Telugu
- వ్యసనం, వ్యసనము
- addiction in Malayalam
- ആസക്തി āsakti
- addiction in Kannada
- ಗೀಳು, ಅಳುಪಿಕೆ, ತೆವಲು, ತೆವುಲು
- addiction in Punjabi
- ਆਦਤ ādat
- addiction in Gujarati
- ટેવ ṭev, અનુરાગ anurāg
- addiction in Sanskrit
- तात्पर्य tātparya, सङ्ग saṅga
- addiction in Assamese
- নিচা nisa
- addiction in Nepali
- लत
- addiction in Tagalog
- adiksiyon
- addiction in Arabic
- إِدْمَان ʔidmān
- addiction in Malay
- ketagihan, pengagihan
- addiction in Indonesian
- adiksi, kecanduan, ketagihan, ketergantungan
- addiction in Persian
- اعتیاد e'tiyâd
Examples of addiction in a sentence
- What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.
- To address the climate crisis, we need to break free of our addiction to fossil fuels.
- She finally came to terms with her addictions at her third rehab clinic and rarely drank again.
Forms of addiction
| plural | addictions |
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Origin of addiction
From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio (“an adjudging, an award”).
Words formed from addiction
Phrases with addiction
Words that rhyme with addiction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
- fiction
30 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about addiction
- What does addiction mean?
- Addiction means a state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
- What is addiction in Hindi?
- Addiction in Hindi is व्यसन (vyasan). See Addiction meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is addiction?
- Addiction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce addiction?
- Addiction is pronounced /əˈdɪkˌʃən/.
- What is the plural of addiction?
- The plural of addiction is addictions.
Words near addiction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: addiction (page history and authors); addiction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); addiction (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); نشہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); addiction (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); addiction (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ആസക്തി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); addiction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਆਦਤ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); અનુરાગ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); तात्पर्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); addiction (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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