Is “addicting” a Word?

Question by christopher_kirchen: Is “addicting” a word?
I always thought the word was “addictive”; is this a new word that has been added on to our lexicon merely by use, or is it an actual word I was not aware of?
shorty, ain’t, and f**k are in the dictionary too; that doesn’t make them proper words.

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Answer by Purple Helen
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both addicting and addictive are correct adjectives.

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