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Meaning of addiction

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  addiction
      n 1: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something
           that is psychologically or physically habit-forming
           (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: {addiction},
           {dependence}, {dependance}, {dependency}, {habituation}]
      2: an abnormally strong craving
      3: (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or
         person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his
         creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law
         addiction was the justification for slavery"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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