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Internet addiction disorder

noun

Etymology

First used in 1995 by Dr. Ivan K. Goldberg as a joke to parody the complexity and rigidity of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but was shortly thereafter legitimized in some spaces as an actual disorder.

Definitions

  1. A disorder characterized by excessive Internet use that interferes with daily life.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Internet addiction disorder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Internet addiction disorder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA