white plague vs habituation

white plague and habituation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
white plague	Yes	No	No	No
habituation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, habituation is a hypernym of white plague; that is, habituation is a word with a broader meaning than white plague:

white plague: an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
habituation: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

Other hypernyms of white plague include addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency.

white plague (noun)	habituation (noun)
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body	a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)	being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)