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technolust

noun

Etymology

From techno- + lust.

  1. inherited from *lustuz✻
  2. inherited from *lustu✻
  3. inherited from lust — “lust, pleasure, longing”
  4. inherited from lust
  5. prefixed as technolust — “techno + lust”

Definitions

  1. A strong desire for modern technology.

    • The ultimate source of CMW lies in the first blushes of technolust, when the hobbyist realizes with startling certainty that he has to have a motherboard[…]
    • John Buschmann has raised some compelling points about technolust in libraries. He suggests that electronic resources are perceived as having a higher status than print resources[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for technolust. 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