addictive vs obsessive

addictive

adj
  • Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming. 

  • Enjoyable. 

  • Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. 

noun
  • Anything that is very habit-forming. 

  • A drug that causes an addiction. 

obsessive

adj
  • Prone to cause obsession. 

  • Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others. 

  • Excessive, as results from obsession. 

noun
  • A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession. 

How often have the words addictive and obsessive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )