Verboticism: Warrentyism
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Userphobia
Created by: nanaord
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I suffer from userphobia
Etymology:
Instructivitis
Created by: buck180
Pronunciation: in/STRUK/tiv/eye/tiss
Sentence: Carl's impressive library of instruction manuals and product warranty booklets numbered in the thousands even though his only appliances were a stove, refrigerator, coffee maker, television and an iPod. However, he was definitely the 'go-to' guy for any trouble-shooting questions his friends had when one of THEIR appliances went on the fritz. Even when Bill's John Deere tractor wouldn't start, Carl had the answer.
Etymology: Root word: INSTRUCTIVE - to have knowledge and enjoy giving direction. Medical suffix: +ITIS - from Latin, meaning an inflammation.
Docusess
Created by: grant0
Pronunciation: Doc-you-ssess.
Sentence: She is TOTALLY docusessed.
Etymology: Documentation + obsessed.
Documania
Created by: duefiori
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My father's documania was fatal when we tried to use new appliances.
Etymology:
Mansessivetism
Created by: duriano
Pronunciation: man-se-sif-ti-zem
Sentence: His mansessivetism drives me crazy everytime I ask him about the washing machine.
Etymology: manual + obsesssive
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