addictiveness
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6.1
- noun
- /əˈdɪktɪv.nəs/
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adicción
- The addictiveness of caffeine can make it difficult for some people to stop drinking coffee.
- the addictiveness of nicotine
Examples
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The author is remiss in pointing out the obvious: some big chunk of Angry Bird's addictiveness is because the base activity is a fun thing: it is fun and pleasant to launch a slingshot at a building of blocks.
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You're conscious of the high factor of addictiveness of Substance D?
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Re: the addictiveness of fructose-rich sweeteners.
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What I do know is that watching Google Analytics is nearing crack in terms of addictiveness! I am not even using it for anything; it's just amazing the things you can see on it.
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I feel like this would be a great time to share some things that I learned recently watching Oprah's Life Class, because this show might be the motivational equivalent in addictiveness to the Joy of Painting!
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This history has important lessons for current tobacco harm-reduction efforts, which continue to focus primarily on product toxicity without sufficiently addressing changes to the addictiveness of the product or smoking behavior.
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The role of the tobacco industry in engineering addictive products and luring new smokers, and the discussion of nicotine's addictiveness as the antithesis of choice, were ignored.
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The addictiveness of social media can lead to excessive screen time.
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Researchers are studying the addictiveness of certain video games to understand their impact on players.
How Addictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Addictiveness comes from the word addict, which originally described someone 'given over' or 'surrendered' to something. So, addictiveness is the quality that makes people 'give themselves over' to an activity or substance and find it hard to stop.