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infobesity

noun
/ɪnfə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/UK/ɪnfoʊˈbisɪti/US

Etymology

Blend of info or information + obesity.

  1. derived from obēsitās
  2. derived from obésité
  3. compounded as infobesity — “information + obesity”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or…

    Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”).

    • [H]ow information professionals can embrace new social networking technologies, and the move from information to knowledge and meaning, as well as the idea of ‘infobesity’.
    • We live in an age of infobesity. Information overload. Too much choice. You can't stop it – as even the Chinese are finding – by building virtual walls any more.
    • As [Anthony] Lilley (2008) has suggested, we are living in an age of ‘infobesity’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for infobesity. 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