digitalism

[ dij-i-tl-iz-uhm ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. the abnormal condition resulting from an overconsumption of digitalis.

digitalism

/ ˈdɪdʒɪtəˌlɪzəm /

noun

1. a serious condition resulting from digitalis poisoning, characterized by nausea, vomiting, and a disturbance in heart rhythm or rate

Word History and Origins

Origin of digitalism¹

digital(is) + -ism

Example Sentences

Hallyu has engulfed the world since, wielding the “soft power” of influence through social media and digitalism—but this is really Korean innovation in microcosm, an ideology the nation has combined with its industrial mastery to begin answering some of humanity’s greatest needs.

From National Geographic

Does it reflect a wide-spread misunderstanding of how things really work in journalism now that digitalism is opening everyone’s access to everything in real time and blurring the value of individual scholarship and authorship?

From Salon

Roe Ethridge is famous for taking the slick, seductive conceptualism of Christopher Williams and the Düsseldorf School and injecting it with gritty digitalism and personal references to create his own brand of emo-conceptualism — a more earnest, biographical mode of photography.

From New York Times

Digitalism’s approach more than works, as well as its bouncy yet unsettling original singles “Idealistic” and “Zdarlight,” a pun on the influential French pop producer and dance artist Philippe Zdar.

From New York Times

BerMuDa will end with a huge party featuring some of the world’s top dance-music performers, including Sven Väth, Digitalism and Fritz Kalkbrenner, at the Tempelhofer Feld — a new 300-hectare park on the site of the old Tempelhof Airport.

From Time