Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025 Despite the tendency for users to report the positives, psychological risks also appear—especially emotional dependency, experts say.

DEPENDENCY meaning: 1. a situation in which you need something or someone and are unable to continue normally without…. Learn more.

Definition of dependency noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

You talk about someone's dependency when they have a deep emotional, physical, or financial need for a particular person or thing, especially one that you consider excessive or undesirable.

DEPENDENCY definition: the state of being dependent; dependence. See examples of dependency used in a sentence.

dependency noun 1. province, colony, outpost, dominion, protectorate a tiny European dependency

Aug 13, 2025 · Noun [edit] dependency (countable and uncountable, plural dependencies) A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.

DEPENDENCY meaning: 1 : the quality of being dependent dependence; 2 : an area that is controlled by a country but that is not formally a part of it

de•pend•en•cy /dɪˈpɛndənsi/ n., pl. -cies. the state of being dependent:[uncountable] drug dependency. Government [countable] a subject territory that is not an essential part of the …

Many of the people who come to the clinic have drug or alcohol dependencies. He wrote a memoir about his struggles with chemical dependency.