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technoangst

technoangst noun: emotional distress caused by modern technology, especially computers.

Noun

technoangst (uncountable)

  1. Emotional distress caused by modern technology, especially computers.
    • Communications with the dealer diminish as resignation sets in, but periods of relative quietude are punctuated with recurrent, painful spasms of technoangst. Intense desire to acquire what merchandisers so callously refer to as "product" alternates with hot flashes of guilt and shame over...1984 December 31, Gary B. Palmer, “Whiplash”, in InfoWorld, page 8
    • While it probably means nothing concrete, it's also intriguing that in the 1984 annual report—in his wonderfully overblown, often perilously meaningless prose—Ripley presaged the technoangst that many at the institution seem to experience contemplating the IBM on Adams's credenza: […]1987 August, Howard Means, “The Quiet Revolutionary”, in The Washingtonian, page 147
    Synonyms:
    technostress

Examples of technoangst in a sentence

  • Communications with the dealer diminish as resignation sets in, but periods of relative quietude are punctuated with recurrent, painful spasms of technoangst.1984 December 31, Gary B. Palmer, “Whiplash”, in InfoWorld, page 8:
  • Between technofuturism and technoangst is just one short, fatal step.1997, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 199:

Synonyms of technoangst

Origin of technoangst

From techno- + angst.

Questions about technoangst

What does technoangst mean?
Technoangst means emotional distress caused by modern technology, especially computers.
How do you use technoangst in a sentence?
Communications with the dealer diminish as resignation sets in, but periods of relative quietude are punctuated with recurrent, painful spasms of technoangst.
What part of speech is technoangst?
Technoangst is a noun.

Words near technoangst in the dictionary

  1. techno-utopia
  2. techno-utopian
  3. techno-utopianism
  4. techno-utopians
  5. techno-utopias
  6. technoangst
  7. technobabble
  8. technoburb
  9. technoburban
  10. technoburbs
  11. technobureaucracies

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