nonaddict
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is not an addict.
Example Sentences
- "But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death."
- "What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict."
- "Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active)."
- "Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has shown in several brain-imaging studies that people addicted to such drugs as cocaine, heroin and alcohol have fewer dopamine receptors in the brain’s reward pathways than nonaddicts."