dopamine

English

Chemical structure of dopamine

Etymology

From dopa +‎ -amine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.pə.miːn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.pəˌmin/

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Noun

dopamine (countable and uncountable, plural dopamines)

1. (biochemistry, pharmacology) A monoamine C₈H₁₁NO₂ that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.
   • 2017 December 12, Amy B Wang, “Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’”, in Washington Post‎^[1]:

     “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

Synonyms

• DA

Hypernyms

• catecholamine
• phenethylamine

Derived terms

• -dopa
• dopaminergic
• dopaminoceptive
• hydroxydopamine
• -opamine
• polydopamine

 

Translations

neurotransmitter

• Arabic: دُوبَامِين (ar) (dūbāmīn)
• Armenian: դոֆամին (hy) (dofamin)
• Azerbaijani: dopamin
• Basque: dopamina
• Belarusian: дафамін m (dafamin)
• Bengali: ডোপামিন (ḍōpamin)
• Bulgarian: допамин m (dopamin)
• Catalan: dopamina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 多巴胺 (do¹ baa¹ on¹)

  Mandarin: 多巴胺 (zh) (duōbā'àn)

• Czech: dopamin (cs) m
• Danish: dopamin c or n
• Dhivehi: ޑޯޕަމީން (ḍōpamīn̊)
• Dutch: dopamine (nl) f
• Esperanto: dopamino
• Estonian: dopamiin
• Finnish: dopamiini (fi)
• French: dopamine (fr) f
• Galician: dopamina (gl) f
• German: Dopamin (de) n
• Greek: ντοπαμίνη (el) f (ntopamíni)
• Hebrew: דּוֹפָּמִין m (dopamin)
• Hungarian: dopamin (hu)
• Icelandic: dópamín n
• Indonesian: dopamin
• Interlingua: dopamina
• Irish: dopaimín m
• Italian: dopamina (it) f
• Japanese: ドーパミン (ja) (dōpamin)
• Korean: 도파민 (dopamin)
• Latvian: dofamīns m
• Lithuanian: dopaminas m
• Macedonian: допамин m (dopamin)
• Malay: dopamin
• Malayalam: ഡോപാമിൻ (ḍōpāmiṉ)
• Marathi: डोपामिन (ḍopāmin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dopamin m or n

  Nynorsk: dopamin m or n

• Occitan: dopamina f
• Odia: ଡୋପାମିନ୍ (ḍopamin)
• Persian: دوپامین
• Polish: dopamina (pl) f
• Portuguese: dopamina (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਡੋਪਾਮਾਇਨ (ḍopāmāina)
• Romanian: dopamină f
• Russian: дофами́н (ru) m (dofamín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: допа̀мӣн m

  Roman: dopàmīn (sh) m

• Slovak: dopamín m
• Slovene: dopamin m
• Spanish: dopamina (es) f
• Sundanese: dopamin
• Swahili: dopamini
• Swedish: dopamin (sv) n
• Tagalog: dopamino
• Thai: โดพามีน (doo-paa-miin), โดปามีน (doo-bpaa-miin)
• Turkish: dopamin (tr)
• Ukrainian: дофамі́н m (dofamín)
• Welsh: dopamin m

See also

• norepinephrine

References

• “dopamine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dopamine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.pa.min/

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Noun

dopamine f (uncountable)

1. dopamine

References

• dopamine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

dopamine f

1. plural of dopamina

Anagrams

• pendiamo