Talk:addictive personality
Latest comment: 8 years ago by BD2412 in topic RFD
RFD[edit]
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Sum of parts? ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
- I think SoP would be a personality that is itself addictive (easy to become addicted to). Although sense three of "addictive" covers this, it uses "addictive personality" as an example, and I don't know of another commonly used collocation where "addictive" is used to mean something other than sense 1 or 2. bd2412 T 13:51, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
- Some usage at COCA of addictive is more like definition three. Noun phrases headed by life, crime, disease, disorder, for example, don't well fit "1. Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.", let alone "2. Enjoyable."
- A catchall sense, possibly even broader (eg, "or associated with") than "3. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction." seems necessary to include all of these.
- OTOH “addictive personality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. shows that two lemmings, a medical and a learner's dictionary, have it. DCDuring TALK 16:19, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
- Weak keep. dictionary.cambridge.org has it[1]. Since no one posted any boldface yet, here is one. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:18, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
No consensus to delete. bd2412 T 15:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)