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cyberbole

UK/saɪˈbɜːbəli/US/saɪˈbɝbəli/

cyberbole noun: exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.

Noun

cyberbole (uncountable)

  1. Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
    • The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a...2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742
    • Regardless of whether one is wired or not, it is impossible to avoid the hype or cyberbole surrounding the Internet.2005, Zaheer Baber, CyberAsia: The Internet And Society in Asia, →ISBN, page 57

Origin of cyberbole

Coined by Steve Woolgar as blend of cyber + hyperbole in Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).

Questions about cyberbole

What does cyberbole mean?
Cyberbole means exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
What part of speech is cyberbole?
Cyberbole is a noun.
How do you pronounce cyberbole?
Cyberbole is pronounced /saɪˈbɜːbəli/ (UK).

Words near cyberbole in the dictionary

  1. cyberbeggars
  2. cyberbegging
  3. cyberbeing
  4. cyberbeings
  5. cyberblackmail
  6. cyberbole
  7. cyberbook
  8. cyberbooks
  9. cyberborder
  10. cyberborders
  11. cyberbreach

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