multi-addiction

English

Alternative forms
  • multiaddiction

Etymology

multi- +‎ addiction

Noun

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

  1. (rare) Addiction to multiple substances.
    • 1983, Patrick Carnes, The sexual addiction:
      To further complicate matters, the reactions of family members to the multi-addiction patterns were as unhealthy as the coping of the addicts themselves.
    • 1999, Glenn D Walters, The addiction concept: working hypothesis or self-fulfilling prophesy?:
      One could test this hypothesis by following a group of subjects displaying different addictive behaviors over time using a multi-addiction assessment...
    • 1999, Rick Bass, Brown dog of the Yaak: essays on art and activism:
      Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort.
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