infomania
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.
Origin of infomania
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How to use infomania in a sentence
infomania, they say, is more subtly crippling than physical hoarding.
Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”
British Dictionary definitions for infomania
/ (ˌɪnfəʊˈmeɪnɪə) /
an obsessive need or desire for factual information
an obsession with keeping up to date with one's emails, text messages, etc
Origin of infomania
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