-holic

Etymology
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Suffix

 * 1) Denotes addiction to the substance or activity of the stem word.

Usage notes

 * The form is usually used with words already ending with vowels. For stems ending with consonants, the phonetically pleasant forms  or  may be more common.
 * In contemporary modern English "-holic" is a suffix that can be added to a subject to denote an addiction to it. The term is derived from alcoholism, one of the first addictions to be widely identified both medically and socially.
 * There are other more formal terms for such addictions, many uncommonly used. For example, dipsomania, a medico-legal term for alcoholism, is used less than 1% as often as "alcoholism" in a large sample of academic writing over the last 20 years; other examples are given in the following table.