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Googleitis

Googleitis is the alternative form of Googlitis.

Meaning of Googlitis

Noun

Googlitis (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The excessive use of, or overreliance on, Google (or other search engines), possibly leading to misinformation or impaired critical thinking skills.
    • Be careful of Google, though. You can diagnose yourself as having every dreadful disease on the planet with just one sniffle. If I'm being honest, my husband had to save me from being carried away by Googleitis more than once.2019, Rachel C. Swanson, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose, New York, NY: FaithWords, →ISBN, page unknown

Questions about Googleitis

What is Googleitis the alternative form of?
Googleitis is the alternative form of Googlitis.

Words near Googleitis in the dictionary

  1. googlebombs
  2. googled
  3. googled up
  4. Googledebunk
  5. Googleing
  6. Googleitis
  7. Googlemania
  8. Googlemaniac
  9. Googlemaniacs
  10. googlenope
  11. googlenopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Googleitis (page history and authors); Googlitis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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