addictive vs hypnotic

addictive

noun
  • A drug that causes an addiction. 

  • Anything that is very habit-forming. 

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

  • Enjoyable. 

  • Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. 

hypnotic

noun
  • A soporific substance. 

  • A person who is, or can be, hypnotized. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism. 

  • Inducing sleep; soporific. 

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