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doomscroller

noun

Etymology

From doom + scroller.

  1. derived from *skraudō✻
  2. derived from *skraudu✻ — “a shred”
  3. derived from escroe
  4. inherited from scrowle
  5. suffixed as scroller — “scroll + er”
  6. compounded as doomscroller — “doom + scroller”

Definitions

  1. A person who engages in doomscrolling.

    • One doomscroller notes he wakes each day hopeful for what is to come, but the first thing he does is reach for his telephone so he can throw himself into the abyss of negative news.

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