Doomscrolling

Quick meaning: Doomscrolling is a noun meaning (informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.

Meaning

(informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of doomscroll

Example Sentences

Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic]).

It would be easy enough to say just stop doing it, but with everything happening in the world right now, it’s impossible to completely avoid doomscrolling.

But this is 2021 and after a year and a half of COVID-19, of racial and socioeconomic unrest, viewers may be tuning in for a respite from doomscrolling daily news.

Word Forms

• doom-scrolling
• doom scrolling

Synonyms for doomscrolling

Depending on context, synonyms include doomsurfing.

Antonyms for doomscrolling

Common opposites include bloomscrolling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doomsurfing, push-scrolling, cascade, necromancy, creepypasta, e-drama.

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