From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Addiction \Ad*dic"tion\, noun [Cf. L. addictio an adjudging.] The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. ''His addiction was to courses vain.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: {dependence}, {dependency}, {habituation}]
2: an abnormally strong craving
3: (Roman law) a formal award by a court sentence of a thing or person to another (as of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "addiction": a habit, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, habituation, nicotine addiction, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms
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