infovorous

English

Etymology

From info- +‎ -vorous.

Adjective

infovorous (comparative more infovorous, superlative most infovorous)

1. Pertaining to the consumption of information; Involving learning and gathering knowledge.
   • 2006 May-June, Irving Biederman, Edward A Vessel, “Perceptual pleasure and the brain: A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it through the senses”, in American scientist, volume 94, number 3:

     When people are trying to satisfy a need for food, are avoiding harm or are otherwise involved in some goal-oriented behavior, then the infovorous instincts take a less active role.

   • 2017, Chris Philo, Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography:

     In this paper, I want to argue that the world consists of a series of 'intelligencings', to use a rather clumsy phrase, intelligencings which vary substantially in their reach and understanding and interaction, and which have geographies we can and should map – 'infovorous' geographies that can and do teach us how to be, and that therefore have an important ethical dimension.

   • 2018, M Miheț, “The Prose of Matei Vișniec”, in Annals of the University of Oradea, Romanian Language & Literature Fascicule, volume 25:

     Mathieu’s gesture of keeping a diary comes naturally when set against the background of infovorous danger — of the information-addicted individual.