Obsess vs Addict - What's the difference?
obsess | addict |
To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
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, title= (label) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
To think or talk obsessively about.
A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
* He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
An adherent or fan (of something)
To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug
To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
* (rfdate), (John Evelyn)
* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &
* (rfdate) (Adventurer)
* (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)
* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
* (rfdate) (John Evelyn)
* The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.
As verbs the difference between obsess and addict
is that obsess is to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion while addict is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.As a noun addict is
a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.obsess
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Verb
(es)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
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English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addictSynonyms
* (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- They addict themselves to the civil law.
- He is addicted to his study.
- That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
- His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
- A man gross ... and addicted to low company.