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doomsurfing

noun

Etymology

From doom + surfing (“the activity of browsing the Internet”).

  1. inherited from suffe
  2. formed as surfing — “surf + -ing”
  3. compounded as doomsurfing — “doom + surfing”

Definitions

  1. The continuous, and often obsessive, reading of Internet news or information about a…

    The continuous, and often obsessive, reading of Internet news or information about a disaster.

    • One obvious answer is stress. From Covid-induced nightmares to “doomsurfing” to “coronaphobia,” it’s no secret that pandemic-related anxiety is affecting our collective mental health.
    • Like many of you, I was confined to my apartment, which I often resented. I continuously engaged in what has been referred to as “doomscrolling” (or, in an extension of that same modern parlance, “doomsurfing”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doomsurfing. 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