addiction

English

Etymology

From addict +‎ -ion; compare (Latin) addictio (“an adjudging, an award”)

Pronunciation

IPA: /əˈdɪkʃən/

Noun

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Wikipedia addiction (plural addictions)

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. Shakespeare.

Translations

the state of being addicted

Bulgarian: зависимост (bg) (zavisimost), пристрастеност (bg) (pristrastenost)
Catalan: addicció (ca) f
Dutch: verslaving (nl) n, verslaafdheid (nl) n
Esperanto: manio (eo)
Estonian: sõltuvus (et)
German: Abhängigkeit (de) f, Sucht (de) f
Greek: εξάρτηση (el) (eksártisi) f
Hebrew: התמכרות (he)
Hungarian: függőség (hu)
Jèrriais: addiction f

Korean: 중독 jungdok
Persian: اعتیاد (fa)
Polish: uzależnienie (pl) n
Portuguese: viciado (pt) m, vício (pt)
Russian: зависимость (ru) (zavísimost') f
Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f
Spanish: adicción (es) f
Swedish: beroende (sv) n
Turkish: bağımlılık (tr), iptila (tr)

a habit or practice

Arabic: الادمان (ar) (al edman) m
Bulgarian: навик (bg) (navik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 成癮 (cmn), 成瘾 (cmn) (chéngyǐn), 癮 (cmn), 瘾 (cmn) (yǐn), 癮頭 (cmn), 瘾头 (cmn) (yǐntóu)
Esperanto: manio (eo)
Finnish: riippuvuus (fi), himo (fi), addiktio (fi)
French: dépendance (fr) f
German: Abhängigkeit (de) f
Greek: εξάρτηση (el) (eksártisi) f

Japanese: 中毒 (ja) (ちゅうどく, chūdoku)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: avhengighet (nb) m and f
Polish: nałóg (pl) m
Russian: зависимость (ru) (zavísimost') f, пагубная привычка (ru) (págubnaja privýčka) f
Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f
Spanish: adicción (es) f
Turkish: düşkünlük (tr), tutku (tr)

a pathological relationship

Greek: εξάρτηση (el) (eksártisi) f

Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd (gd) f

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Telugu: వ్యసనము (vyasanamu)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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