Addictiveness
producing or tending to cause :
an addictive drug.
more than normally susceptible to :
an addictive personality.
adjective
of, relating to, or causing addiction
adj.
1815, a word in chemistry and medicine; 1939 in the narcotics sense, from addict (v.) + -ive. related: addictively; addictiveness.
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