ADDICTION

Addiction

Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.

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addiction

Noun

  1. The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
  2. A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
  3. A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
    His addiction was to courses vain. Shakespeare.


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