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DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
Verboticisms
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Documentardation
Created by: hugeredbear
Pronunciation: dok-u-ment-ard-a-shun
Sentence: A simple oversight by IKEA (an extra bag of bolts,) and Bob never fully recovered from the documentardation.
Etymology: documentation + retardation
Readiteration
Created by: denise
Pronunciation: ree-DIT-ter-A-shun
Sentence: The young man realized he had fallen into his readiterative tendencies yet again after taking hours to read one sentence repeatedly in order to fully understand how to use his pencil.
Etymology: a blend of read + reiteration
Angrivation
Created by: rampantidiocy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was overcome by angrivation after purchasing User's Manuals For Dummies.
Etymology: Ian Temchin created this word in New Jersey in 2004 as a combination of anger and aggrivation so commonly associated with reading product documentation and warranties.
Mansessivetism
Created by: duriano
Pronunciation: man-se-sif-ti-zem
Sentence: His mansessivetism drives me crazy everytime I ask him about the washing machine.
Etymology: manual + obsesssive
Readorexia
Created by: wyzowl
Pronunciation: read orexia
Sentence: My readorexia has left me pooped from reading the DIRECTIONS.
Etymology: Akin to anorexia.
Manualoticulus
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: man-u-ol-tick-ul-us
Sentence: Wanting to know everything.
Etymology: From the english word manual.
Intrinsication
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: In-trin-sick-ae-shun
Sentence: He used the powerful method of intrinsication to fill his head with every single piece of data on the use of and warranty information of pencils, short of watching some sort of documentary or special on pencils and such related products.
Etymology: The word intrinsic, meaning "of it's nature" with the suffix -tion.
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COMMENTS:
- Manhattan, 2006-12-23: 16:23:00
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