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multi-addiction en · NOUN

Etymology

From multi- + addiction.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare, uncountable) 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. 1983, Patrick Carnes, The sexual addiction:
   • One could test this hypothesis by following a group of subjects displaying different addictive behaviors over time using a multi-addiction assessment... 1999, Glenn D Walters, The addiction concept: working hypothesis or self-fulfilling prophesy?:
   • Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort. 1999, Rick Bass, Brown dog of the Yaak: essays on art and activism:

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