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information fatigue, n.
Brit. |ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃn fətiːg|, U.S. |ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)n fəˌtig|
[‹ information n. + fatigue n. Compare earlier information overload n. at information n. Additions.]
Apathy, indifference, or mental exhaustion arising from exposure to too much information, esp. (in later use) stress induced by the attempt to assimilate excessive amounts of information from the media, the Internet, or at work.
Sometimes with preceding word specifying the nature of the information.
1991Daily Tel. 4 Feb. 19/4 Most Americans..do not, in fact, wish to be told what is happening. Perhaps they are suffering from war information fatigue. 1991E. European Business Law Sept. 6/2 It would be quite impossible to be bored by the book, though one might suffer information fatigue. 1996Guardian (Nexis) 5 Nov. t2 Knowledge, as never before, is power. In the end, information fatigue may be a small price to pay for preserving it. 2002Managem. Today (Nexis) 31 Oct. 37 Scratch the surface of current debates about information fatigue, time squeeze, work/life balance or productivity and you quickly see that we're often talking about energy.
Compounds. information fatigue syndrome n.compare chronic fatigue syndrome n. at chronic adj. Additions information fatigue regarded or characterized as a disorder.
1994Straits Times (Singapore) 5 Oct. (Life section) 4/6 With so much bombardment of information, we sometimes tend to suffer from *information fatigue-syndrome. 2002Information Managem. Jrnl. (Nexis) Jan.–Feb. 20 Modern-day society suffers from ‘information fatigue syndrome’. Technology has enabled virtually anything definable as information to be captured, classified, and stored. |
