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- noun The characteristic of being
addictive .
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Examples
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Another core aspect of the addictiveness is their continuous nature.
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With regard to my first point, it's very common (for me, at least) to sign up for a still-in-beta site after being digitally flirted with across a few channels, only to discover that the range, scope, usability, and urgency (what I'd call the addictiveness factors) of the offering weren't compelling enough to prompt return visits.
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As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the 'addictiveness' of drugs such as opiates and cocaine was established by observing how frequently caged animals would push levers to obtain doses.
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As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the 'addictiveness' of drugs such as opiates and cocaine was established by observing how frequently caged animals would push levers to obtain doses.
3quarksdaily 2009
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'addictiveness' of drugs such as opiates and cocaine was established by observing how frequently caged animals would push levers to obtain doses.
Peak Energy 2009
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Heroin and crack cocaine were ranked 98 and 97 on this scale of addictiveness.
BJ Gallagher: One Smoker's Battle to Quit BJ Gallagher 2011
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MY point as Moderator is that some of the postings are wandering off into various opinions as to the addictiveness of grass and so on.
Page 2 2009
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MY point as Moderator is that some of the postings are wandering off into various opinions as to the addictiveness of grass and so on.
Page 2 2009
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Or they get started on drugs (despite evidence for its destructive addictiveness).
Poverty and Social Pressure, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Many studies relate the addictiveness of a game to its reward system and I agree that the rewards a game grants to its players do influence how rigorously it's played, but from experience and many stories around me I say that the fellow players play a much larger part in keeping someone coming back to the game than the reward system does.
D&D last night nathreee 2009
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