I mean that for a few days it looked like it was going to eat my life, and then it stopped. Had it carried on being as compulsive as it was at first, I would classify it as addictive-for-me. It did something else instead. (Was that really unclear?)
It was clear that the word “compulsive” would work perfectly.and that we have inflated “addictive” enough that is used in contexts that make me double take at the irony of the contrast between the usage and the actual meaning.
Addictive means “creates compulsion which increases with use”, right? So it’s addictive at first and then compulsive but not addictive and then neither.
I mean that for a few days it looked like it was going to eat my life, and then it stopped. Had it carried on being as compulsive as it was at first, I would classify it as addictive-for-me. It did something else instead. (Was that really unclear?)
It was clear that the word “compulsive” would work perfectly.and that we have inflated “addictive” enough that is used in contexts that make me double take at the irony of the contrast between the usage and the actual meaning.
Addictive means “creates compulsion which increases with use”, right? So it’s addictive at first and then compulsive but not addictive and then neither.