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multi-addiction

noun

Etymology

From multi- + addiction.

  1. borrowed from addictus
  2. suffixed as addiction — “addict + ion”
  3. prefixed as multi-addiction — “multi + addiction”

Definitions

  1. An addiction to multiple substances.

    • To further complicate matters, the reactions of family members to the multi-addiction patterns were as unhealthy as the coping of the addicts themselves.
    • One could test this hypothesis by following a group of subjects displaying different addictive behaviors over time using a multi-addiction assessment...
    • Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multi-addiction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA