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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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Docusess
Created by: grant0
Pronunciation: Doc-you-ssess.
Sentence: She is TOTALLY docusessed.
Etymology: Documentation + obsessed.
Warrentyism
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: war ren tee ism
Sentence: By re-reading the directions to the alarm clock the thirtith time she fell into warrentyism
Etymology: warrenty - guarantee of goodness in a product ism - makes it a noun
Instruxation
Created by: Clay201
Pronunciation: In struc SAY shun
Sentence: When she smiled apologetically and nervously reached into the drawer to pull out the coffee maker manual for what must have been the twentyieth time, I knew she was suffering from instruxation.
Etymology: It's a combination of the words "instructions" and "fixation."
Lawyertudity
Created by: mythman
Pronunciation: LOY-yer-TOO-dih-tee
Sentence: Bobby feared the industry--due to their growing lawyertudity--would fine him for sleeping on that side of the mattress.
Etymology: attitudes of lawyers ... if you're not doing what all the words say, we'll sue ya!
Infophilia
Created by: alanmilner
Pronunciation: info-filia
Sentence: The older you get, the more you suffer from infophilia because the more you forget, the more you forget what you might have forgotten.
Etymology: the antonym of infophobia
Dysmanuorrhea
Created by: Elfie
Pronunciation: dis-man-war-REE-ah
Sentence: He suffered acute dysmanuorrhea with every software upgrade, overwhelmed by the sheer detail in each new agreement.
Etymology: dys - bad, difficult manuo - derived from "manual" orrhea - excessive discharge of key information from the brain
Guidenseekindrome
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: guide-in-seek-in-drome
Sentence: People with guidenseekindrome are the reason Poptarts have cooking instructions, and a label saying "DO NOT PUT PACKAGE IN MICROWAVE!"
Etymology: Derived from hidenseekindrome, which we all know is the condition of people that suck at hide-and-seek.
Jimadybobalingly
Created by: jimadybobalon
Pronunciation: jim-ady-bob-al-ing-ly
Sentence: I have to sharpen my pencil jimadybobalingly!
Etymology:
Instruchosis
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: in-struh-kO-sis
Sentence: His instruchosis left him unable to assemble even the simplest flat-pack furniture.
Etymology: From 'instructions' + 'psychosis'
Docupulsive
Created by: SlappyDaClown
Pronunciation: Doc-u-pul-sive
Sentence: I think hes somewhat docupulsive about those instructions.
Etymology: Coined by Freud in his massive missive on Compulsions.
