addictant

Meanings

nounaddictant (plural addictants)

An addictive substance
2025, Bill Cassidy, Congressional Record, U.S. Senate, S6712, September 18, 2025. This is an incredibly powerful addictant, an incredibly powerful, ability-to-kill drug.
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Furthermore, the frequency and size of the dosage of the addictant determine the extent of addiction.
1981, Dan R. O'Banion, An Ecological and Nutritional Approach to Behavioral Medicine, page 40

adjectiveaddictant (comparative more addictant, superlative most addictant)

Capable of causing addiction, addictive
Procaine and the related synthetic local anesthetics are not addictant.
1957, Torald Hermann Sollmann, A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology, page 340

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