technophilia

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ -philia.

Noun

technophilia (usually uncountable, plural technophilias)

  1. A love of new technologies.
    Antonyms: technophobia, cyberphobia
    Coordinate terms: technodeterminism, techno-futurism, techno-optimism, techno-utopianism
    Near-synonym: technophoria
    • 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.
    Hypernyms: paraphilia < condition
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