multi-addiction

noun

An addiction to multiple substances.

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Meanings

nounmulti-addiction (countable and uncountable, plural multi-addictions)

plural multi-addictions · alternative multiaddiction

  1. countablerareuncountableAn addiction to multiple substances.

    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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    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?

Origin

From multi- + addiction.

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