Hyphenation of addiction

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word addiction? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of addiction:

1.	Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
2.	An abnormally strong craving
3.	(Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor) A surrender to a master Under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery

Synonyms of addiction:

noun	dependence, dependency, habituation, physiological state, physiological condition
noun	craving
noun	award, awarding

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.