technophilia

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ -philia.

Noun

technophilia (usually uncountable, plural technophilias)

1. A love of new technologies.
   • 2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84:

     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.

2. A sexual attraction to technology.

Antonyms

• technophobia

Related terms

• technophile