adicción

/adiɡˈθjon/ · B2 · noun · f

addiction

🚬🍷 adicción = add + dicción: you keep ADDing one more, can't stop

Sounds like English 'addiction' because both come from Latin addictio, from addicere 'to assign, devote'. The Spanish -ción ending matches English -tion, so adicción is nearly a direct copy: a thing you are devoted to compulsively.

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