infoholic
infoholic noun: a person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
Noun
infoholic (plural infoholics)
- A person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
- On the other hand the production of concordances in itself is scarcely less "dangerous" than the undue enthusiasm for on line retrieval systems rightly characterised as "infoholics" by some reviewers.1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78
- We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .1989, R. Patton Howell, Wars End, 1992: The Revolutionary New Thought in the European Community
Forms of infoholic
| plural | infoholics |
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Origin of infoholic
From info- + -holic.
Questions about infoholic
- What does infoholic mean?
- Infoholic means a person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
- What part of speech is infoholic?
- Infoholic is a noun.
- What is the plural of infoholic?
- The plural of infoholic is infoholics.
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