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English
Etymology
From info- + -holic.
Noun
infoholic (plural infoholics)
- (informal) A person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78: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.
1989, R. Patton Howell, Wars End, 1992: The Revolutionary New Thought in the European Community:We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .
1997, Helen Wilkinson, Tomorrow's Women:Naomi is something of an infoholic, an avid reader of newspapers and magazines and, increasingly, a user of the Internet.