Other forms: workaholics
A workaholic is a person who cannot stop working, even when they should. A self-confessed workaholic, workaholic culture, become a workaholic.
The word treats work as an addiction and the parallel holds better than most such coinages — the compulsion, the harm and the denial are all there. Long hours past a point reduce output as well as health. Note that -aholic was extracted from alcoholic, which is not how the word divides.
1nounworkaholicA person who cannot stop working.
“He's such a workaholic that he answers emails on Christmas Day.”
workaholic is a compulsive worker.
Middle English
werk
English
work
English, today
workaholic
From work + -aholic. work comes from Middle English werk. From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic werk, from Proto-Germanic werką (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European wérǵom (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European werǵ- (“to make”). 2
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