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Meaning of "infomania" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INFOMANIA

From info1 + -mania.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF INFOMANIA

ˌɪnfəʊˈmeɪnɪə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFOMANIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infomania is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INFOMANIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Infomania

Infomania is the debilitating state of information overload, caused by the combination of a backlog of information to process, and continuous interruptions from technologies like phones, instant messaging, and e-mail. It is also understood as distraction caused by the urge to check e-mail, text messaging and other sources of information, which causes the person to show symptoms to neglect other, often more important things—duties, family, etc. Infomania is also the name of a search engine that is used in the anime Serial Experiments Lain.

Definition of infomania in the English dictionary

The definition of infomania in the dictionary is an obsessive need or desire for factual information. Other definition of infomania is an obsession with keeping up to date with one's emails, text messages, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFOMANIA

Anglomania · bibliomania · decalcomania · dipsomania · egomania · erotomania · hypomania · kleptomania · leishmania · mania · megalomania · melomania · nymphomania · pyromania · Romania · Roumania · Rumania · Tasmania · technomania · zoomania

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFOMANIA

info · infobahn · infold · infolder · infoldment · infomercial · infopreneurial · inform · informable · informal · informal settlement · informal vote · informalities · informality · informally · informant · informatician · informatics · information · information age

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFOMANIA

cleptomania · demonomania · dinomania · eleutheromania · graphomania · hydromania · hypermania · hysteromania · Lithuania · metromania · morphinomania · mythomania · necromania · Obamamania · orchidomania · petalomania · potichomania · theomania · toxicomania · tulipomania · xenomania

Synonyms and antonyms of infomania in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infomania» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF INFOMANIA

Find out the translation of infomania to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of infomania from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infomania» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

信息狂躁
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

Infomania
570 millions of speakers
en

English

infomania
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

infomania
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infomania
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Инфомания
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

infomania
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

infomania
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Infomania
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Infomania
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Infomania
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

infomania
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

infomania
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Infomania
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infomania
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

infomania
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अनोळखी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

infomania
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

infomania
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

infomania
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Инфомания
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

infomania
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

infomania
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infomania
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Infomania
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Infomania
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infomania

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFOMANIA»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of infomania
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «infomania».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infomania

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFOMANIA»

Discover the use of infomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Infomania: the guide to essential electronic services
Provides the latest information on electronic data services, points out the strengths, weaknesses, and costs of each, and includes a buyer's guide to additions from modems to software
Elizabeth M. Ferrarini, 1985
2
Uncle John's InfoMania Bathroom Reader for Kids Only!
Presents a collection of humorous and little-known facts and trivia, organized into such categories as worldwide weird, mad science, eats and treats, and the United States of odd.
Bathroom Readers' Institute, 2013
3
Cincinnati Magazine
"My. wife. is. an. Momaniac!' "The first time I caught her, I didn't think much about it . But after several days of finding her listening to WCKY, I knew she was an incurable Iniomaniac. . .like me." To play Infomania, listen to WCKY for clues to a  ...
4
Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking
Infomania. In the time I spent researching this short section,Ihavechecked my email about fifty times, played with Googleabouttwentytimes, checked a newspaper search engine five times, taken three telephone calls and replied to a text from a ...
James Harkin, 2012
5
The Law of the Office: A Guide to the Culture of Working ...
Infomania. Everyone knows an office runs more efficiently with the aid of computers ... doesn't it? Perhaps not. if the results of a recent study are anything to go by. When researchers from the UK's lnstitute of Psychiatry looked into the perceived ...
Karen Farrington, 2006
6
Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower
infoMania. and. Boxer's. deMise. In 1945 George Orwell published Animal Farm, a satire of revolution, totalitarianism, and the trappings of power, in which freshly adopted principles of equality and justice were quickly challenged and defeated  ...
Steve Prentice, 2010
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CIO
A. Cure. for. Infomania. E-MAIL MANAGEMENT Nathan Zeldes has been battling the negative effects of information overload for a decade, since his employer, Intel, first moved from mainframes to PCs. "It became incredibly easy for people to  ...
8
Cincinnati Magazine
"My. wife. is. an. Momaniac!' "The first time I caught her, I didn't think much about it . But after several days of finding her listening to WCKY, I knew she was an incurable Infomaniac. . .like me." To play Infomania, listen to WCKY for clues to a  ...
9
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
Chapter 1, "Infomania": Over the ten years of the 1980s, a dramatic change took place in the production and storage of written language. An estimated 80 percent of written language began existing in digital form. Computers swallowed the ...
Michael Heim, 1993
10
The State of the Language
Infomania. What is the state of the language? No state at all. It is in process. Our language is being word-processed. If languages have states of health, get sick or well, then ours is manic. We face a tidal wave of written words. The wave of ...
Christopher Ricks, Leonard Michaels, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFOMANIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infomania is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Confessions of a Digital Hoarder
... truly underway with Apple joining Pulse, Flipboard and Feedly to spoonfeed us all we can eat material that is creating an infomania of sorts. «Pulse, Jun 15»
2
Carey Mulligan, everything you need to know in one handy infographic
science · media · crosswords · video · Carey Mulligan · Infomania ... Infomania. Photograph: The Guide. Johnny Dee. Friday 1 May 2015 11.00 ... «The Guardian, May 15»
3
Corrections and clarifications
Our Infomania feature on grime music, which appeared on page 82 in the edition of The Guide distributed with last Saturday's paper, credited ... «The Guardian, May 15»
4
Louis CK Teaches Buddhadharma
Louis CK is very funny and he captures the sense of infomania that afflicts so many of us. We turn to our devices to avert the raw feelings of life. His insights are ... «Beliefnet, Apr 15»
5
Grime, everything you need to know in one handy infographic
Infomania NB We are aware that there is an error in the above graphic. The lyric credited to JWE is actually from the parody track Boris Bike by ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
6
Why looking down is killing creativity in PR
But there are barriers to being creative in PR and most often cited in our workshops is lack of time. But does the 24/7 news cycle, infomania and ... «PR Week, Apr 15»
7
Upset by political gridlock? Blame the baby boomers
In a University of Kansas journalism class called Infomania, all of the students have laptops. But these millennials have varied opinions too. «Kansas City Star, Apr 15»
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Top Gear, everything you need to know in one handy infographic
... our live coverage of the 2015 men's singles final. Top Gear · Infomania ... Infomania. Photograph: The Guide. Johnny Dee. Friday 27 March ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
9
Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins Ink New Deal With ABC Studios
Haskins wrote and starred in Current TV's SuperNewsand Infomania. Both are repped by UTA, Mosaic and attorney Warren Dern. Subscribe to ... «Deadline.com, Mar 15»
10
Judi Dench, everything you need to know - infographic
Judi Dench · Infomania ... of her era. Infomania. .... wot's the point of infomania, besides being a stupid and tasteless micro-mini-tabloid? Reply | «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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