technophilia
technophilia noun: a love of new technologies.
Noun
technophilia (usually uncountable, plural technophilias)
- A love of new technologies.
- Near-synonym: technophoria
- This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games...2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84
- Synonyms:
- technophoria
- Antonyms:
- technophobia, cyberphobia
- A sexual attraction to technology.
Synonyms of technophilia
Antonyms
Forms of technophilia
| plural | technophilias |
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Origin of technophilia
From techno- + -philia.
Questions about technophilia
- What does technophilia mean?
- Technophilia means a love of new technologies.
- What part of speech is technophilia?
- Technophilia is a noun.
- What is the plural of technophilia?
- The plural of technophilia is technophilias.
Words near technophilia in the dictionary
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