[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being addicted, or habitually given (to a practice); devotion, attachment.
1660. Boyle, Seraphic Love, 47. Your past addictedness to the latter may prove serviceable to you.
1661. Baxter, Moral Prognost., II. § 20, 49. To disable them from a total Addictedness to their proper Work.
1675. J. Howe, View of Late Consid., Wks. 1834, 158/1. With less … addictedness to the interest of any party.
1788. Priestley, Lect. on Hist., V. lxv. 523. Remarkable for their addictedness to drinking.
1865. Reader, No. 117, 337/2. They are fanatics in their addictedness to the dance.
