multi-addiction
nounEtymology From multi- + addiction.
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Rare An addiction to multiple substances.
- 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?:
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- 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: