Technophilia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A love of new technologies. uncountable, usually

    "Near-synonym: technophoria"

  2. 2
    enthusiasm for new technology wordnet
  3. 3
    A sexual attraction to technology. uncountable, usually

Synonyms

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technophoria

Example

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"This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing."

Etymology

From techno- + -philia.

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