information fatiguen.
/ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃn fətiːɡ/, U.S. /ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)n fəˌtiɡ/ 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.
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1991 Daily 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.]
1991 E. European Business Law Sept. 6/2 It would be quite impossible to be bored by the book, though one might suffer information fatigue.
1996 Guardian (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.
2002 Managem. 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.
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1994 Straits Times (Singapore) 5 Oct. (Life section) 4/6 With so much bombardment of information, we sometimes tend to suffer from information fatigue-syndrome.
2002 Information 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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