Definitions for addiction

addiction ad·dic·tion

Spelling: [uh-dik-shuh n]
IPA: /əˈdɪk ʃən/

Addiction is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in addiction (acddiinot).

Definitions for addiction

noun

  1. the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.

Origin of addiction

1595-1605; Latin addictiōn- (stem of addictiō) a giving over, surrender. See addict, -ion

Examples for addiction

Its advertising invites to the formation of an addiction to the drug.

The cause of this, I need hardly say, was his addiction to drinking.

I had graduated NYU just a few years earlier and begun a career in publishing, but the addiction got the best of me.

addiction is a human problem, and this is the Native American version of it.

The dependence thus formed can easily deteriorate into addiction.

They call themselves practical for having an addiction to the palpable.

What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?

Those suffering from addiction in the streets risk disease, overdose, and death.

The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.

The vice of those dusky noblemen is their addiction to drink.

Word Value for addiction
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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