Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
Etymologies
- Blend of cyber- and hypochondriac (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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 term "cyberchondriac" refers to those who use the Internet to look for health-related information.”
“But the problem is you can cross from safe surfing to cyberchondriac pretty easily.”
“So what can you do if you think you're a cyberchondriac?”
“So let's take a look at a list of things that you can watch for in yourself when you know you've crossed over to becoming a cyberchondriac.”
“COHEN: There's a couple of things that you can do to sort of do safe surfing without becoming a cyberchondriac.”
“So, how do you know when you've crossed over to the dark side and become a cyberchondriac?”
“PHILLIPS: All right, so if you think you're a cyberchondriac, what do you do?”
“The sanctimony that comes with the eye roll and the cyberchondriac label may be an extreme example, but it's still a problem if doctors continue to walk into the exam room with the belief that patients always need to be disabused of the wrong and sensationalistic information they picked up while trolling the Net.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyberchondriac’.
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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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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 998 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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random stuff
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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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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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Excellent Made-up Words
Mainly discovered on Wordie.
unobtainium, wordism, veluxography, interweb, verbivore, spamish, manlaughter, blamestorm, atagging, britlish, madeupical, outernet and 38 more...
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cayles's Words
mooch, use, ductile, obtuse, skookum, banal, stubborn, crapulous, usurp, cyberchondriac
Tweets
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johnilyn11jegz cyberchondriac; n. a person who uses the internet for diagnosing the "disease" one might have after noticing weird symptoms. Apr 9, 2012
sonofgroucho Don't dismiss 'cyberchondriacs' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8528774.stm Feb 25, 2010
hernesheir A post-modern species of hypochondria wherein the hypochondriac imagines s/he suffers from a disease based upon symptoms and descriptions gleaned from the ubiquitous medical information on the internet. Dec 30, 2008
reesetee Good one, sionnach. Feb 16, 2008
gangerh A particularly pleasing invention and, I think, one that will come chillingly true. Feb 16, 2008
sionnach a hypochondriac with access to all those fine medical and disease-related internet sites Feb 16, 2008