Did you possibly mean cyberchondriac?
Etymologies
- Blend of cyber- and hypochondria (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We use the term cyberchondria to refer to the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomatology, based on the review of search results and literature on the Web.”
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Cyberchondria: another way to fear the internets
“Although Microsoft Word still underlines it in red, googling the word cyberchondriac provides 46,800 hits, and the term cyberchondria has had its own Wikipedia entry since June, 2005.”
“The problem is compounded by my developing cyberchondria, which is a particularly 21st century-type of an affliction, referring as it does to the inflation of worries about your state of health based on material you have dredged up online.”
“Now Microsoft has completed the first formal study of health-related Web searches, and the rise of so-called cyberchondria: the distress caused by searching innocuous symptoms, and finding links that then quickly lead to extreme conclusions. pain would more likely lead to a link for the worst-case scenario like heart attack, than to the more mundane, "indigestion.”
“Internet fuels bad self-diagnoses and 'cyberchondria”
“An example of "cyberchondria" is someone with a brain tumor.”
“According to the NYTimes article, the syndrome has been known as "cyberchondria" since at least the year ...”
“Although the term "cyberchondria" emerged in 2000 to refer to the practice of leaping to dire conclusions while researching health matters online, the Microsoft study is the first systematic look at the anxieties of people doing searches related to health care, Eric Horvitz said.”
“When I think of Google I think of simplicity, subtle advertising," cyberchondria "(an Internet-induced fear of a terrible diagnosis) and cool innovation.”
“When I think of Google I think of simplicity, subtle advertising, "cyberchondria" an Internet-induced fear of a terrible diagnosis and cool innovation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyberchondria’.
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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The Latin Doctor is Greek to me
Biology Students, Gladiators, Devil Dogs & Harry Potter
et tu, semper fidelis, carpe diem, cui bono, pons asinorum, limbus, e pluribus unum, sine qua non, quidnunc, lacus oblivionis, quincunx, experimentum crucis and 128 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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solarider's Words
maelstrom, leviathan, apiology, deconstruction, confluence, minutiae, onomatopoeia, tardy, ad infintum, tocophobia, cuckold, oblique and 110 more...
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BetaRish's Words
brigand, teetotum, internship, thribble, neologism, readies, resfest, tohubohu, tanzen, regression, nutlet, bandolier and 111 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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Words to have topped the "most wordie...
confelicity, bristol stool scale, blatteroon, toejam, serendipity, oubliette, crepuscular, honeysuckle, mellifluous, sesquipedalian, flaberkin, magnanimous and 141 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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F A V E S
sulphury, tearful sludge, flipitor, orbicular, regality, oblivionizing, critical path, outernet, flotant, friendorphobia, fissure inside, neat loaf and 118 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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good
unfuck, ostensibly, exacerbate, merciless, fluffy, digital breadcrumbs, cyberchondria, power nap, gaping maw, spectral, spectral, verbivores and 75 more...
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Wordie words
Favourites discovered on Wordie.
sinceriously, disconshirting, satisfice, typeractive, unobtainium, puptuplets, irritainment, shockumentary, zitcom, pre-cap, complexicated, bureaubabble and 9 more...
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new words
words/phrases I believe are made up. Then again, I believe in, well, let's not get too familiar...
wonderlucious, yummylicious, relicious, um-er, lotharia, multislacking, lossy, nibling, despringerize, pterabyte, noodlesphere, dogmo and 57 more...
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Medical Mumbo Jumbo
Don't let that quack get the better of you. Who needs a Merck manual when you've got this list?
sphenopalatine ga..., cyberchondria, Sesquipedalophobia, loimology, tumescent, autophagy
Tweets
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artoparts Access hypochondria. Jan 30, 2009
john “If that headache plaguing you this morning led you first to a Web search and then to the conclusion that you must have a brain tumor, you may instead be suffering from cyberchondria.�?
The New York Times, Microsoft Examines Causes of ‘Cyberchondria’ , by John Markoff, November 24, 2008 Nov 25, 2008