infoholic
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Etymology edit
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infoholic (plural infoholics)
- (informal) A person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
- 1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78:
- 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.
- 1989, R. Patton Howell, Wars End, 1992: The Revolutionary New Thought in the European Community:
- We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .
- 1997, Helen Wilkinson, Tomorrow's Women:
- Naomi is something of an infoholic, an avid reader of newspapers and magazines and, increasingly, a user of the Internet.