addictive vs engrossing

addictive

adj
  • Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming. 

  • Enjoyable. 

  • Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. 

noun
  • Anything that is very habit-forming. 

  • A drug that causes an addiction. 

engrossing

adj
  • Utterly consuming one's time and attention. 

noun
  • The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale. 

How often have the words addictive and engrossing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )