Verboticism: Checkmania
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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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:
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
Manualmania
Created by: mgood
Pronunciation: man-u-al-ma-ni-a
Sentence: Man, he has a really bad case of manualmania!
Etymology: combined manual with mania
Readorexia
Created by: wyzowl
Pronunciation: read orexia
Sentence: My readorexia has left me pooped from reading the DIRECTIONS.
Etymology: Akin to anorexia.
Idiosistics
Created by: ElBuro
Pronunciation: ID-i-o-SIS-TIKS
Sentence: "Bah, curse my Idiosistics, I hate these warranties, but I just can't put them down!."
Etymology: Idi-from "Idiot". sis- Sounds like a sickness.
Documania
Created by: duefiori
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My father's documania was fatal when we tried to use new appliances.
Etymology: