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infovorous

infovorous adjective: pertaining to the consumption of information, involving learning and gathering knowledge.

Adjective

infovorous (comparative more infovorous, superlative most infovorous)

  1. Pertaining to the consumption of information, involving learning and gathering knowledge.
    • When people are trying to satisfy a need for food, are avoiding harm or are otherwise involved in some goal-oriented behavior, then the infovorous instincts take a less active role.2006 May-June, Irving Biederman, Edward A Vessel, “Perceptual pleasure and the brain: A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it through the senses”, in American scientist...
    • In this paper, I want to argue that the world consists of a series of 'intelligencings', to use a rather clumsy phrase, intelligencings which vary substantially in their reach and understanding and interaction, and which have geographies we can and should map – 'infovorous' geographies that can and...2017, Chris Philo, Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography

Forms of infovorous

comparativemore infovorous
superlativemost infovorous

Origin of infovorous

From info- + -vorous.

Questions about infovorous

What does infovorous mean?
Infovorous means pertaining to the consumption of information, involving learning and gathering knowledge.
What part of speech is infovorous?
Infovorous is an adjective.

Words near infovorous in the dictionary

  1. infounding
  2. infounds
  3. infoveillance
  4. infovore
  5. infovores
  6. infovorous
  7. infowar
  8. infowarfare
  9. infowarrior
  10. infowarriors
  11. infowhelm

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