An informal noun for the state of being a junkie — the lifestyle, compulsions, and mindset that come with serious drug addiction. It frames addiction almost as a belief system or ideology (via the '-ism' suffix), which can read as either darkly ironic commentary on how all-consuming the lifestyle becomes, or as a genuine attempt to name the culture and habits surrounding dependency. The word appears most often in addiction memoirs, literary fiction, and social commentary rather than clinical contexts.
He wrote about his years of junkyism without sentimentality, describing the rituals and the lies with the same flat tone.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) Addiction, like that of a junkie.
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