Verboticism: Documentia
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Locohowism
Created by: scrawlspacer
Pronunciation: LO co how IZ um
Sentence: When my boyfriend buys a nifty new gadget, I might not see him for days. He has major locohowism.
Etymology: alcoholism + loco (crazy) + how (as in "how to")
Instruxation
Created by: Clay201
Pronunciation: In struc SAY shun
Sentence: When she smiled apologetically and nervously reached into the drawer to pull out the coffee maker manual for what must have been the twentyieth time, I knew she was suffering from instruxation.
Etymology: It's a combination of the words "instructions" and "fixation."
Intrinsication
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: In-trin-sick-ae-shun
Sentence: He used the powerful method of intrinsication to fill his head with every single piece of data on the use of and warranty information of pencils, short of watching some sort of documentary or special on pencils and such related products.
Etymology: The word intrinsic, meaning "of it's nature" with the suffix -tion.
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COMMENTS:
- Manhattan, 2006-12-23: 16:23:00
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Docusess
Created by: grant0
Pronunciation: Doc-you-ssess.
Sentence: She is TOTALLY docusessed.
Etymology: Documentation + obsessed.
Circumdocutation
Created by: hanumanu
Pronunciation: sir-kum-dock-you-TAY-shun
Sentence: Must you obsess in your circumdocutation? Just sharpen the danged thing already!
Etymology: Like circulocution - talking in circles - this is reading instructions in an obsessively concentric way.
Documania
Created by: duefiori
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My father's documania was fatal when we tried to use new appliances.
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 !
Cheechburnout
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: Cheech-burn-out
Sentence: Chong burn out is way badder. You end up munching on the pencils like way before you sharpen them. Whoa,coulda been a prob.
Etymology:
Docromaniac
Created by: RightOnTheWin
Pronunciation: {Do-crow\maine-knee-ak}
Sentence: Tom, being a docromaniac, couldn’t resist the temptation of opening the watch he bought for his father’s birthday, and reading the instructions. Tom ultimately missed his father’s seventy-eighth birthday, because he got too preoccupied reading the instructions of his father’s watch.
Etymology: Docro (derived from the Latin word doceō)–to instruct. Maniac (from Greek - maniacos)- a person characterized by an inordinate or ungovernable enthusiasm for something- Merriam Webster.
