Definition of informavore in US English:
informavore
nouninˈfôrməˌvôrinˈfôrməˌvôr
informal A consumer of information.
Example sentencesExamples
- If they're right, their results could help others design websites and search tools that are as alluring to informavores as flowers are to bees.
- If we are truly committed to student-centered learning, then empowering students to become effective informavores is a worthy goal.
- Informavores will keep clicking as long as they sense (to mix metaphors) that they're "getting warmer" -- the scent must keep getting stronger and stronger.
- I was pleased to read today about treating web visitors as informavores - foragers for information.
- Put simply, the key point is that our biology means that "we are designed by evolution to be informavores - epistemically hungry seekers of information.
Origin
From informa(tion) + -vore.