Meanings
plural infoholics
- informalA person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .
1989, R. Patton Howell, Wars End, 1992: The Revolutionary New Thought in the European Community2 more examples
On the other hand the production of concordances in itself is scarcely less "dangerous" than the undue enthusiasm for on line retrieval systems rightly characterised as "infoholics" by some reviewers.
1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78Naomi is something of an infoholic, an avid reader of newspapers and magazines and, increasingly, a user of the Internet.
1997, Helen Wilkinson, Tomorrow's Women
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)der.?
- Latinfōrma
- Latinfōrmō
- Latinīnfōrmō
- Late Latinīnfōrmātiō
- Middle Englishenformacioun
- Englishinformation
- Englishinfo-
- Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
- Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
- Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
- Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
- Medieval Latinalcoho
- Middle Englishalcofol
- Englishalcohol
- Englishalcoholic
- Englishinfoholic
Cite this entry
infoholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoholic
“infoholic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoholic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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