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pseudoaddiction

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + addiction.

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

Definitions

  1. A purported condition resembling drug addiction but caused by underprescription of drugs…

    A purported condition resembling drug addiction but caused by underprescription of drugs to treat pain in the patient, causing them to seek more.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoaddiction. 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