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technophile

American  
[tek-nuh-fahyl] / ˈtɛk nəˌfaɪl /

noun

  1. a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.


technophile British  
/ ˈtɛknəʊˌfaɪl /

noun

  1. a person who is enthusiastic about technology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. enthusiastic about technology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • technophilia noun

Etymology

Origin of technophile

First recorded in 1955–60; techno- + -phile

Example Sentences

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A soft-spoken technophile with a doctorate in robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anderson has a collection of patents and papers on autonomous technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Artist J. M. W. Turner was a technophile, famously capturing the Industrial Revolution in paint.

From Nature • Dec. 19, 2019

Perhaps the most prescient scene in the futuristic 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons” was when George, the eager technophile, had to run as fast as he could to stay on a newfangled treadmill gone haywire.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2018

The former is a renegade club maker with some outrageous ideas, the latter is a technophile instructor with some complicated notions about the swing.

From Golf Digest • Aug. 1, 2018

Ahmad, technophile and deeply protective brother, was, in very real ways, watching over Zeitoun at all times.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers