Addiction

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Addiction \Ad*dic"tion\, n. [Cf. L. addictio an adjudging.]
     The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His
     addiction was to courses vain." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  addiction
       n 1: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that
            is psychologically or physically habit-forming
            (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: {dependence},
             {dependency}, {habituation}]
       2: an abnormally strong craving
       3: (Roman law) a formal award by a court sentence of a thing or
          person to another (as of a debtor to his creditor); a
          surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the
          justification for slavery"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "addiction":
     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,
     physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance,
     withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms