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addiction
noun as in a habit of activity, often injurious
Strong matches
bag, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, fixation, hang-up, hook, inclination, jones, kick, monkey on one's back, obsession, shot, thing
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What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?
I was talking to one of my friends, who had just recently gotten over a drug addiction, who she tried to talk to about this case.
Methamphetamine addiction is central to more than one story.
I had graduated NYU just a few years earlier and begun a career in publishing, but the addiction got the best of me.
The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.
It is most frequent among those whose addiction to alcohol for years has caused repeated paroxysms of delirium tremens.
But non-drug addiction is a major crime against the state of Omega.
Bagsby was a punchy man, with a bald head, and a nose which betokened his habitual addiction to the fiery grape of Portugal.
Addiction to the practice of occult arts had evidently become general in the now semi-orientalized city.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.
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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to addiction, such as: bag, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, and fixation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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