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Definitions of addictive in various dictionaries:
adj - causing or characterized by addiction
ADDICTIVE - Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Despite the involvement of a ...
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| (of a substance or activity) causing or likely to cause someone to become addicted to it. |
| causing or characterized by addiction |
| Causing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive substance. |
| Characterized by or susceptible to addiction: an addictive personality. |
| An addictive drug is one that you cannot stop taking once you have started: |
| An addictive activity or food is one that you cannot stop doing or eating once you have started: |
| a set of characteristics that mean that you very quickly become addicted to drugs, food, alcohol, etc.: |
| Addictive might refer to |
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| Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, a biological process one which is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus is the core pathology that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction. The two properties that characterize all addictive stimuli are that they are reinforcing (i.e., they increase the likelihood that a person will seek repeated exposure to them) and intrinsically rewarding (i.e., they are perceived as being inherently positive, desirable, and pleasurable).Addiction is a disorder of the brain's reward system which arises through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms and occurs over time from chronically high levels of exposure to an addictive stimulus (e.g., eating food, the use of cocaine, engagement in sexual intercourse, participation in high-thrill cultural activities such as gambling, etc.). FosB, a |