Phrase guide

drug addiction

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A dependency on drugs, especially which are illegal or improperly procured.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drug abuse, drug dependence, substance abuse, substance dependence, toxicomania

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: white plague

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation

Narrower terms: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness, cocaine addiction, heroin addiction, caffein addiction, nicotine addiction

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: narkomaní — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Albanian: toksikomaní — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Albanian: drogamaní — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Armenian: թմրամոլություն (tʻmramolutʻyun) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Azerbaijani: narkomaniya — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Belarusian: наркама́нія (narkamánija) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Belarusian: нарказале́жнасць (narkazaljéžnascʹ) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Bulgarian: наркома́ния (narkománija) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Catalan: drogoaddicció — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Catalan: drogodependència — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Catalan: toxicomania — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 藥物成癮 /药物成瘾 (yàowù chéngyǐn) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 吸毒成癮 /吸毒成瘾 (xīdú chéngyǐn) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Czech: drogová závislost — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Czech: narkomanie — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Danish: narkomani — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Danish: stofmisbrug — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Danish: afhængighed af narkotika — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Estonian: narkomaania — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Estonian: sõltuvus — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Finnish: huumeriippuvuus — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Finnish: huumeisuus — dependency on illegal drugs
  • French: toxicomanie — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Georgian: ნარკომანია (narḳomania) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • German: Drogensucht — dependency on illegal drugs
  • German: Drogenabhängigkeit — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Hungarian: kábítószer-függőség — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Hungarian: drogfüggőség — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Irish: andúil i ndrugaí — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Japanese: 薬物嗜癖 (yakubutsu shiheki) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Kazakh: есірткіқорлық (esırtkıqorlyq) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Kazakh: нашақорлық (naşaqorlyq) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Kazakh: есірткіқұмарлық (esırtkıqūmarlyq) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Korean: 약물 중독 (yangmul jungdok) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Latvian: narkomānija — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Lithuanian: narkomanija — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Macedonian: наркома́нија (narkománija) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: narkomani — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: narkotikaavhengighet — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Polish: narkomania — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Portuguese: drogadição — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Portuguese: toxicodependência — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Romanian: toxicomanie — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Russian: наркома́ния (narkománija) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Russian: наркозави́симость (narkozavísimostʹ) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Serbo-Croatian: наркома̀нија — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Serbo-Croatian: narkomànija — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Slovak: drogová závislosť — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Spanish: drogodependencia — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Spanish: drogadicción — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Swahili: uraibu wa dawa za kulevya — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Tajik: нашъамандӣ (naš'amandi) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Ukrainian: наркома́нія (narkománija) — dependency on illegal drugs
  • Ukrainian: наркозале́жність (narkozaléžnistʹ) — dependency on illegal drugs