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infomania
[ in-fuh-mey-nee-uh, ‑foh‑ ]
noun
- excessive enthusiasm for acquiring knowledge.
- Digital Technology.
- an obsessive need to constantly check emails, social media, online news, etc.:
The fear of being out of the loop, not in the know, fuels infomania, especially among teens.
- the effects of this obsession, especially a decline in the ability to concentrate:
She attributes her increasingly poor “life management skills” to infomania.
infomania
/ ˌɪnfəʊˈmeɪnɪə /
noun
- an obsessive need or desire for factual information
- an obsession with keeping up to date with one's emails, text messages, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of infomania1
First recorded in 1975–80; info(rmation) + mania
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Word History and Origins
Origin of infomania1
C20: from info 1+ -mania
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Example Sentences
Infomania, they say, is more subtly crippling than physical hoarding.
From The Daily Beast
Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”
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