Verboticism: Docuaddiction
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Manualoticulus
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: man-u-ol-tick-ul-us
Sentence: Wanting to know everything.
Etymology: From the english word manual.
Warrier
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: War-eee-ur
Sentence: Like many disabled persons, Jim was quite the warrier, always reading his wheelchair's warranty.
Etymology: warranty + worrier
Reast
Created by: evitameanslife
Pronunciation: Re - a - st
Sentence: We can figure this out practically, we dont need tips , stop being a reast.
Etymology:
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
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)
Overinformativeness
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: oh-ver-in-for-mah-tive-ness
Sentence: Upon opening his new cell phone's user manual, he suffered a bout of overinformativeness.
Etymology: Over + information + ness
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.
Recompilimentation
Created by: hiladizzle
Pronunciation: re-com-pil-i-men-ta-tion
Sentence: He keeps thumbing through that booklet like he's got recompilimentation!
Etymology: reading (the action or practice of a person who reads) + compulsive (compelling; compulsory) + debilitating (impairing the strength and vitality) + documentation (manuals, listings, diagrams, and other hard- or soft-copy written and graphic materials)
