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addiction
English
- 🔊 (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor)“under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery”
- 🔊 an abnormally strong craving
- 🔊 being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Similar words
dependence
dependance
dependency
habituation
a habit
acquired tolerance
acute alcoholism
addictedness
alcoholism
amphetamine withdrawal symptoms
barbiturate addiction
barbiturism
chain smoking
chronic alcoholism
cocainism
crash
craving
dependence
dipsomania
drug addiction
drug culture
drug dependence
habituation
nicotine addiction