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DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Atypetic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: aye-typ-et-ick
Sentence: OMG she is just so atypetic. She put all of the Ikea instructions into a powerpoint presentation and displayed it on the wall the entire time we were constructing the shelving unit.
Etymology: type-a personality
Necessareread
Created by: deviant
Pronunciation: Ness-ess-air-ree-reed
Sentence: After half an hour of box examination, instruction reading and rereading, his necessarereadic tendancys struck again and he went back to examing the box of the 4 piece jigsaw.
Etymology: Necessary conjoined with reread
Rebingeamanuala
Created by: brucee10
Pronunciation: Re-binge-a-man-u-la
Sentence: By taking my medication daily, I have conquered my Rebingeamanuala and my upgrade times are down 45%.
Etymology: Repetitive + Binge + Manual
Manualaria
Created by: qwerty
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Due to a serious case of manualaria, Ned rarely tried out new software until weeks after he'd installed it.
Etymology:
Reedovumit
Created by: RachelPhillipson2007
Pronunciation: Read Oh Voomit
Sentence: My sister reads all the time and sometimes she vomits from looking at the paper all the time. I think shes got Reedovumit!
Etymology: Reedo [reading obsessivley] + Vumit [disgusting vomiting every fortnight] = Reedovumit !
Documental
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: dock-you-men-tahl
Sentence: Having repeatedly searched the user manual from cover to cover without any spark of illumination, Maria began to suspect she had gone documental...
Etymology: documentation + mental (contraction)
Ocdvd
Created by: vetmommy2
Pronunciation: "Oh-Cee-Dee-Vee-Dee"
Sentence: Don't be so OCDVD, put down the instructions and just turn the thing ON!!
Etymology: from the DSM-III Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and DVD- digital video disc.
Hyperinfodocumentitis
Created by: bailandi
Pronunciation: hi-pur-in-foe-dok-u-men-tie-tis
Sentence: One of my grandfather's sypmtom of hyperinfodocumentitus was a drawer full of manuals to antiquated equipment kept by his bedside.
Etymology: Hyper - prefix, beyond, over, above; usually implying excess or exaggeration. "info and documen" signify dealing with information and documents, -itis meaning inflammation, making this sound like a medicial condition.
