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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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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)
Documanualist
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: doc u manual ist
Sentence: she was a compulsive documanualist always reading every word before touching any item.
Etymology: from documents manuals and fetishist.
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
Knownot
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: no - not
Sentence: She's such a knownot that she things she can't figure anything out without reading directions on EVERYTHING....
Etymology: to feel unknowledgable about anything without reading all documentation on it.
Manuentality
Created by: myrrh
Pronunciation: man-yoo-en-TAL-ih-tee
Sentence: Juliette suffered from manuentality, and would often take out instructional books from the library as casual reading.
Etymology: manual + mentality
Prodification
Created by: dastickney
Pronunciation: Prod-I-Fi-Ka-Shun
Sentence: As he was deep into prodification, he soon realized that he was able to once again use his manual can opener.
Etymology:
Atypetic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: aye-typ-et-ick
Sentence: OMG she is just so atypetic. She put all of the Ikea instructions into a powerpoint presentation and displayed it on the wall the entire time we were constructing the shelving unit.
Etymology: type-a personality
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."
