Defining addiction is both positive and negative:
addicted |əˈdiktid|
adjective
• physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance, and unable to stop taking it without incurring adverse effects : she became addicted to alcohol and diet pills.
• enthusiastically devoted to a particular thing or activity : he's addicted to computers.
therefore based on this definition, I am addicted to computers, art, gardening and reading.
Here are synonyms in both + and - (positive and negative)
- addicted
- adjective
1. he was addicted to tranquilizers dependent on; informal hooked on, strung out on.
2. she became addicted to the theater devoted to, obsessed with, fixated on, dedicated to, fanatical about, passionate about, enamored of, a slave to; informal hooked on, wild about, mad about, crazy about, nuts about.
antonym: indifferent
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