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loveaholic en · NOUN

Etymology

From love + -aholic.

Meanings

  1. (informal) One who has an excessive need to be in a romantic relationship.
    • Like most women, I'm not a crazed loveaholic. 2006, Hope Newman, Malibu Murders, →ISBN:
    • The loveaholic is a taker, even though they think they are a giver. 2015, Marie Chapian, How to Be Happy in an Unhappy World, →ISBN:
    • An unrepentant Drew admitted as much when she stated that she was "a loveaholic now and of all the holics you can be, that's preferable." 2000, Leah Furman, Elina Furman, Happily Ever After: The Drew Barrymore Story, →ISBN, page 145:

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