addiction
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio (“an adjudging, an award”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈdɪkʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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addiction (countable and uncountable, plural addictions)
- (medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.[1][2]
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the state of being addicted
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a habit or practice
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a pathological relationship
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References
[edit]- ^ Angres DH, Bettinardi-Angres K (October 2008). "The disease of addiction: origins, treatment, and recovery". Dis Mon 54 (10): 696–721. doi:10.1016/j.disamonth.2008.07.002. pmid:18790142.
- ^ Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE (2009). "Chapter 15: Reinforcement and Addictive Disorders". In Sydor A, Brown RY. Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Medical. pp. 364–365, 375. →ISBN. "The defining feature of addiction is compulsive, out-of-control drug use, despite negative consequences. ...compulsive eating, shopping, gambling, and sex–so-called “natural addictions”– Indeed, addiction to both drugs and behavioral rewards may arise from similar dysregulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system."
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin addictiōnem; probably through English addiction.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]addiction f (plural addictions)
Related terms
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English addiction.
Noun
[edit]addiction f (plural addictions)
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