infovorous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the consumption of information, involving learning and gathering knowledge.
Example Sentences
- "When people are trying to satisfy a need for food, are avoiding harm or are otherwise involved in some goal-oriented behavior, then the infovorous instincts take a less active role."
- "In this paper, I want to argue that the world consists of a series of 'intelligencings', to use a rather clumsy phrase, intelligencings which vary substantially in their reach and understanding and interaction, and which have geographies we can and should map – 'infovorous' geographies that can and do teach us how to be, and that therefore have an important ethical dimension."
- "Mathieu’s gesture of keeping a diary comes naturally when set against the background of infovorous danger — of the information-addicted individual."
Etymology
From info- + -vorous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more infovorous (comparative)
most infovorous (superlative)