Verboticism: Manualmaniac
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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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
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
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!
Jimadybobalingly
Created by: jimadybobalon
Pronunciation: jim-ady-bob-al-ing-ly
Sentence: I have to sharpen my pencil jimadybobalingly!
Etymology:
Cigourettes
Created by: OldEnglish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: On Christmas Eve, we would drift off to sleep listening to the traditional cries of "I'll show you a Tab A, you B Slot!" that always accompanied my father's seasonal bouts of Cigourette's.
Etymology: Complete Idiot's Guide + Tourette's
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
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
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.