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infomania
noun
Digital Technology. a. an obsessive need to constantly check emails, social media websites, online news, etc.: The fear of being out of the loop, not in the know, fuels infomania, especially among teens. b. the effects of this obsession, especially a decline in the ability to concentrate: She attributes her increasingly poor 鈥渓ife management skills鈥� to infomania.
More about infomania
Infomania is a modern combination of information and mania. It entered English in the 1970s.
how is infomania used?
The Bagus Gran Cyber Caf茅s are Tokyo’s grand temples of infomania. … At first glance the spread looks officelike, but be warned: these places are drug dens for Internet addicts.
Since then, he has led the charge at Intel to deal with “infomania,” which he describes as a debilitating state of mental overload–caused by backlogs of e-mail, plus interruptions such as e-mail notifications, cell phones and instant messages.
ocellated
adjective
having eyelike spots or markings.
More about ocellated
The English adjective ocellated is a derivative of the Latin noun ocellus 鈥�(little) eye,鈥� a diminutive of oculus 鈥渆ye.鈥� Ocellus is used especially in affectionate language, equivalent to 鈥渁pple of my eye鈥� or 鈥渄arling.鈥� As a horticultural term, ocellus means 鈥渋ncision made in the bark for inserting a bud or scion.鈥� The only modern sense of ocellus does not occur in Latin; it is a zoological term meaning 鈥渟imple eye or light-sensitive organ; a colored spot on birds鈥� feathers or butterflies鈥� and dates from the 18th century.
how is ocellated used?
… M茅line’s nose and eyes are such that you would swear you were looking at an ocellated butterfly, perching on a rosebud.
Fantasia was quick to push close the door behind them, although when doing so momentarily trapped the end of the cockbird’s ocellated or ‘eyed’ tail-feathers which, as a consequence, gave the signal for pandemonium to break loose.
More about sabulous
The English adjective sabulous is a clear-cut borrowing from Latin 蝉补产耻濒艒蝉耻蝉 鈥漡ravelly, sandy,鈥� a derivative of sabulum 鈥渃oarse sand, gravel.鈥� Sabulum comes from an assumed Italic psaflom. (Italic is the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the modern Romance languages.) Psaflom comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root bhes- 鈥渢o rub鈥� as Greek 辫蝉锚辫丑辞蝉 鈥減ebble鈥� and Germanic sandam (Old English and English sand, German Sand). Sabulous entered English in the 17h century.
how is sabulous used?
But clearly the beach is also a stage, a studio, indeed an arena, sabulous or otherwise, at the heart of the culture.
The plants rose from the stones like a conjurer’s trick, working roots down into hidden pockets of sabulous soil …