Noun: addiction
| Singular | addiction |
| Plural | addictions |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
Nouns inflected like addiction
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio (“an adjudging, an award”).
Verbs referencing "addiction"
French Nouns
addiction, Finnish Nouns
addiktio, Ukrainian Nouns
адикція.