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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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Diavamentitis
Created by: sisica
Pronunciation: diyah-vah-men-TYE-tis
Sentence: My case of diavamentitis is so severe that I can spend an entire evening reading an instruction manual and still have a floor full of screws, dowels, and boards. Of course, I still have no desk. That's why the computer is sitting on the box that the desk came in.
Etymology: Greek word for read "diavazei." "Ment" would refer to mental, and "itis" would be the condition. Therefore, it's the mental condition of reading.
Necessareread
Created by: deviant
Pronunciation: Ness-ess-air-ree-reed
Sentence: After half an hour of box examination, instruction reading and rereading, his necessarereadic tendancys struck again and he went back to examing the box of the 4 piece jigsaw.
Etymology: Necessary conjoined with reread
Documania
Created by: elona
Pronunciation: Dokumania
Sentence:
Etymology: Documentation+mania
Documentia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Through his persistent reading of warranties, he was slipping further and further into documentia
Etymology: document + dementia
Manualoticulus
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: man-u-ol-tick-ul-us
Sentence: Wanting to know everything.
Etymology: From the english word manual.
Disclaimpulsive
Created by: misnomer
Pronunciation: dis/claym/pul/siv
Sentence: Her disclaimpuslsiveness was the chagrin of most prospective employers.
Etymology: Disclaimer; compulsive.
Documental
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: dock-you-men-tahl
Sentence: Having repeatedly searched the user manual from cover to cover without any spark of illumination, Maria began to suspect she had gone documental...
Etymology: documentation + mental (contraction)
