Dependency vs Addicted - What's the difference?
dependency | addicted |
A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; addiction.
(computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
Being physically or psychologically dependent on something.
(addict)
As a noun dependency
is a state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.As an adjective addicted is
being physically or psychologically dependent on something.As a verb addicted is
past tense of addict.dependency
English
Noun
(dependencies)- Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.
- In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.
- This library has a lot of dependencies . We have to compile all of those other libraries first.
addicted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is addicted to the Internet.
- She became more addicted to crack than she had ever been to heroin.