Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person who indulges in and desires information gathering and interpretation.
Examples
“So here comes news of Borderlands, and infovore is very excited about it, which made me pay a bit of notice: it's co-op, it's a shooter, and it's 4-player.”
“I'm a stone infovore and this kinda Internet mishegas gives me a serious frisson of futurosity.”
“And yet, the browser is cast in the image of an infovore - and not a social being.”
“As an infovore and avid practitioner of continuous partial attention, my first impulse is to reach for a firehose and stick my head into the stream.”
“The place can get messy in a hurry and a messy home is no place for an infovore to dwell.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘infovore’.
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words
Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
pwned, craptacular, embiggen, phwoar, dealie-bob, doojiggy, bootylicious, craptastic, ^_^, π, oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ti..., gustnado and 326 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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ursamajor's Words
defenestrate, infovore, voracious, liminal, malediction, fallacy, supercalifragilis..., neologism, wordanista, truthiness, shiksa
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notexactly's favorites
some of my favorite words. most of them, just because I think they sound cool.
anfractuous, water hammer arre..., carbometalation, moonbounce, loopstick, orbital bombardment, stratosphere, statosphere, sphendone, ventifact, defenestration, phlogiston and 9 more...
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dewiclark29's list
Words I come across!!!
enervate, equanimity, infovore, protuberance, evanescent, foolhardy, pluvious, fallacious, promulgate, effusive, circumlocution, pulchritudinous and 3 more...
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brynn's list
prosopagnosia, lovecub, hypocritical, fuchsia, defenestrate, brynn, obfuscate, frenetic, gander, supermuch, odious, failwhaled and 2 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear I'm adding this word solely because of dewiclark's comment. :) Sep 30, 2008
dewiclark29 I think I'm an infovore, that's y i like this word. I get into work, I check email, read the news, do some work, check news again, do some work, check news again, take a break, check news again.... saw on a website a reference to our "innate hunger for information" and how "neural pathways through which we learn about the world tap into the same pleasure networks in the brain as are activated by drugs like heroin." Sep 22, 2008
dewiclark29 ~A person that has a voracious appetite for information. Sep 22, 2008