A shopaholic is someone with a
shopping addiction
Shopping addiction is characterized by an eagerness to purchase unnecessary or superfluous things and a lack of impulse control when it comes to shopping. It is a concept similar to compulsive buying disorder (''oniomania''), but usually has a more ...
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Shopaholic can also refer to:
*An informal term for someone with a
compulsive buying disorder
Compulsive buying disorder (CBD) is characterized by an obsession with shopping and buying behavior that causes adverse consequences. It "is experienced as a recurring, compelling and irresistible–uncontrollable urge, in acquiring goods that la ...
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''Shopaholic'' (novels), a series of books written by
Sophie Kinsella
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. The first two novels in her best-selling ''Shopaholic'' series, '' The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic'' and '' Shopaholic Abroad'', were adapted into th ...
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''Confessions of a Shopaholic'' (film), a 2009 film adaptation of''
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
''The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic'' (2000) (released in the United States and India as ''Confessions of a Shopaholic'') is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, the first in the Shopaholic series. It focuses on Becky Bloomwood, a finan ...
'', the first book in the Shopaholic novels series
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''Shopahholic'' (TV series), a Norwegian television series broadcast by TV3
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The Shopaholics'', a 2006 Hong Kong film.
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