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Definition of Habit-forming
1. Adjective. Causing or characterized by addiction. "Addictive behavior"
Definition of Habit-forming
1. Adjective. Addictive; likely to cause dependence or recurrence of use. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habit-forming
Literary usage of Habit-forming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"(2) To secure the enactment of laws forbidding the sale of habit-forming drugs,
and preparations containing them, except on the prescription of duly ..."
2. The Principles of Language-study by Harold E. Palmer (1921)
"CHAPTER VIII habit-forming AND HABIT-ADAPTING LANGUAGE-LEARNING, like all other
arts as contrasted with sciences, is a habit-forming process. ..."
3. The Teacher and the School by Chauncey Peter Colegrove (1922)
"(6) Repetition with the desire to improve is the final step in habit forming.
In training pupils it is important to remember that repetition as used here is ..."
4. The Psychology of Childhood by Naomi Norsworthy, Mary Theodora Whitley (1918)
"LAWS OF habit-forming. — General psychology lays down two great laws of
habit-formation, the law of Exercise, and the law of Effect. ..."
5. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1912)
"Some of these preparations containing habit-forming drugs other than alcohol are
given in the "President's Homes Commission" report and are here arranged ..."
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