addiction

Other forms of addiction

plural

addictions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about addiction

What does addiction mean?

addiction means "being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in addiction?

addiction has 3 syllables: ad-dic-tion. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /əˈdɪkʃən/.

What is another word for addiction?

Close synonyms include dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is addiction a common word?

addiction is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with addiction?

6 words rhyme with addiction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.