doomscrolling
/ˈdumˌskɹolɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.
Informal; Uncountable
verb
present participle and gerund of doomscroll
Example Sentences
- "Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden that doomscrolling creates for our health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to realize you don’t want to live your life in a hamster wheel of complete news consumption,” he said."
- "I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic])."
- "It would be easy enough to say just stop doing it, but with everything happening in the world right now, it’s impossible to completely avoid doomscrolling."
- "But this is 2021 and after a year and a half of COVID-19, of racial and socioeconomic unrest, viewers may be tuning in for a respite from doomscrolling daily news."
- "Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic."
- "There is only so much negativity you can absorb before you have to take a deep breath and ask yourself, Do I really need to spend all day doomscrolling? Where is my joy?"
Etymology
From doom + scrolling, from the practice of scrolling through timelines and news feeds on a computer or mobile device; originally in a context of being dissatisfied with current socio-political conditions and headlines. Popularized and surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdumˌskɹolɪŋ/