Addiction

//əˈdɪkˌʃən//

Synonyms for "addiction" (34 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (7)

a habit abuse acquired tolerance acute alcoholism addictedness alcoholism amphetamine withdrawal symptoms

Strong matches (10)

barbiturate addiction barbiturism chain smoking chronic alcoholism cocainism crash craving dependence

Noun(2 words)

dependance dependence

Related words (17)

Noun(2 words)

dependency habituation

dipsomania drug addiction drug culture drug dependence fixation habit habituation illness inclination nicotine addiction physical dependence psychological dependence tolerance withdrawal sickness withdrawal symptoms

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

6 entries

award awarding craving physical condition physiological condition physiological state

Synonyms

2 entries

habit inclination

causes desire

2 entries

go on internet smoke

derived

15 entries

Internet addiction disorder addiction-like addictionlike addictionology alcohol addiction antiaddiction cyberaddiction deaddiction drug addiction multi-addiction multiaddiction overaddiction polyaddiction pseudoaddiction readdiction

derived from

1 entries

addict

has context

4 entries

latin medicine narcotic roman law

has property

1 entries

bad

is a

3 entries

award craving physiological state

related to

6 entries

addict addicted addicting addictive devotion inclination

Translations

115 translations across 51 languages.

Arabic

2 entries

إِدْمَان noun (the state of being addicted)
إِدْمَان noun (a habit or practice)

Assamese

1 entries

নিচা noun (the state of being addicted)

Asturian

1 entries

adicción noun (the state of being addicted)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

aludəçilik noun (the state of being addicted)
asılılıq noun (a habit or practice)

Belarusian

2 entries

адды́кцыя noun (the state of being addicted)
зале́жнасць noun (the state of being addicted)

Bulgarian

3 entries

зави́симост noun (the state of being addicted)
на́вик noun (a habit or practice)
пристрасте́ност noun (the state of being addicted)

Catalan

1 entries

addicció noun (the state of being addicted)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

成癮 /成瘾 noun (the state of being addicted)
成癮 /成瘾 noun (a habit or practice)
癮 /瘾 noun (a habit or practice)
癮頭 /瘾头 noun (a habit or practice)

Czech

4 entries

návyk noun (the state of being addicted)
návyk noun (a habit or practice)
závislost noun (the state of being addicted)
závislost noun (a pathological relationship)

Danish

4 entries

afhængighed noun (the state of being addicted)
destruktiv relation noun (a pathological relationship)
mani noun (a habit or practice)
sygt forhold noun (a pathological relationship)

Dutch

2 entries

verslaafdheid noun (the state of being addicted)
verslaving noun (the state of being addicted)

Esperanto

2 entries

manio noun (a habit or practice)
toksomanio noun (the state of being addicted)

Estonian

1 entries

sõltuvus noun (the state of being addicted)

Finnish

4 entries

addiktio noun (the state of being addicted)
addiktio noun (a habit or practice)
addiktio noun (a pathological relationship)
himo noun (a habit or practice)

French

3 entries

addiction noun (the state of being addicted)
dépendance noun (the state of being addicted)
dépendance noun (a habit or practice)

Galician

1 entries

adicción noun (the state of being addicted)

German

3 entries

Abhängigkeit noun (the state of being addicted)
Abhängigkeit noun (a habit or practice)
Sucht noun (the state of being addicted)

Greek

4 entries

εθισμός noun (the state of being addicted)
εξάρτηση noun (the state of being addicted)
εξάρτηση noun (a habit or practice)
εξάρτηση noun (a pathological relationship)

Hebrew

1 entries

הִתְמַכְּרוּת noun (the state of being addicted)

Hindi

1 entries

व्यसन noun (the state of being addicted)

Hungarian

1 entries

függőség noun (the state of being addicted)

Icelandic

1 entries

fíkn noun (the state of being addicted)

Indonesian

4 entries

adiksi noun (the state of being addicted)
kecanduan noun (the state of being addicted)
ketagihan noun (the state of being addicted)
ketergantungan noun (the state of being addicted)

Interlingua

2 entries

dependentia noun (the state of being addicted)
dependentia noun (a habit or practice)

Irish

1 entries

andúil noun (the state of being addicted)

Italian

3 entries

assuefazione noun (the state of being addicted)
dipendenza noun (the state of being addicted)
dipendenza noun (a habit or practice)

Japanese

2 entries

中毒 noun (a habit or practice)
嗜癖 noun (the state of being addicted)

Korean

3 entries

중독 noun (the state of being addicted)
중독 noun (a habit or practice)
탐닉 noun (the state of being addicted)

Macedonian

1 entries

зависност noun (the state of being addicted)

Malay

2 entries

ketagihan noun (the state of being addicted)
pengagihan noun (the state of being addicted)

Māori

2 entries

wara noun (the state of being addicted)
waranga noun (the state of being addicted)

Norman

1 entries

addiction noun (the state of being addicted)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

avhengighet noun (the state of being addicted)
avhengighet noun (a habit or practice)

Persian

1 entries

اعتیاد noun (the state of being addicted)

Polish

4 entries

nałóg noun (a habit or practice)
uzależnienie noun (the state of being addicted)
uzależnienie noun (a habit or practice)
współuzależnienie noun (a pathological relationship)

Portuguese

3 entries

adicção noun (the state of being addicted)
adicção noun (a habit or practice)
vício noun (the state of being addicted)

Romanian

2 entries

adicție noun (the state of being addicted)
dependență noun (the state of being addicted)

Russian

4 entries

адди́кция noun (the state of being addicted)
зави́симость noun (the state of being addicted)
зави́симость noun (a habit or practice)
па́губная привы́чка noun (a habit or practice)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

tràillealachd noun (the state of being addicted)
tràillealachd noun (a habit or practice)
tràillealachd noun (a pathological relationship)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

závisnōst noun (the state of being addicted)
òvisnōst noun (the state of being addicted)
за́висно̄ст noun (the state of being addicted)
о̀висно̄ст noun (the state of being addicted)

Sikkimese

1 entries

སྐྱུར་ཉོམ noun (the state of being addicted)

Slovak

1 entries

závislosť noun (the state of being addicted)

Slovene

1 entries

zasvojenost noun (the state of being addicted)

Spanish

4 entries

adicción noun (the state of being addicted)
adicción noun (a habit or practice)
dependencia noun (the state of being addicted)
vicio noun (the state of being addicted)

Swedish

1 entries

beroende noun (the state of being addicted)

Tagalog

2 entries

adiksiyon noun (the state of being addicted)
adiksiyon noun (a habit or practice)

Turkish

4 entries

bağımlılık noun (the state of being addicted)
düşkünlük noun (a habit or practice)
iptila noun (the state of being addicted)
tutku noun (a habit or practice)

Ukrainian

1 entries

зале́жність noun (the state of being addicted)

Welsh

1 entries

caethiwed noun (the state of being addicted)

Yiddish

1 entries

אַדיקציע noun (the state of being addicted)

Zazaki

2 entries

fen noun (the state of being addicted)
mubtela noun (the state of being addicted)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.

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There really is such a thing as Internet addiction.

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Drug addiction degraded many people.

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Drug addiction is a cancer in modern society.

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