Technophoria

Quick meaning: Technophoria is a noun meaning Excessive enthusiasm for technology, or excessive optimism about its possibilities.

Meaning

Excessive enthusiasm for technology, or excessive optimism about its possibilities.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: technophilia

The technophoria of the mid-1990s has, however, left an unfortunate legacy: digital media and print culture studies' avid attention to changing e-book formats and digital rights skirmishes has distracted both fields from considering the surprising resilience of literary discussion.

2011 Philip Doty, "Privacy, Reading, and Trying Out Identity: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Technological Determinism", in Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by William Aspray and Philip Doty, Scarecrow Press, p. 240. As is widely recognized, the technophoria of these and similar authors is all too common, with only Castells of the three offering any serious and specific critique of such enthusiasm.

Synonyms for technophoria

Depending on context, synonyms include technophilia.

Antonyms for technophoria

Common opposites include technophobia, cyberphobia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overoptimism, hyperenthusiasm, overenthusiasm, overexcitement, hyperexcitation, overexpectation.

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