Infobesity

the relentless feast of online information, typically through search engines (i.e. Google, Wikipedia, etc.)

-I got all my research information from Google.
-Dude, that's infobesity.

by GE10 November 10, 2010

Infobese

A person who is intellectually obese, retaining a considerable amount of information. Often on a personal quest for knowledge and understanding.

My son is infobese - always reading about consciousness or quantum physics!

by RHarvey February 24, 2010

Infobesity

The never ending onslaught of information, data, facts and figures & related content that the internet produces means we are all become infobese.

Joe "Hey Alex did you see that new animation on twitter"
Alex " No, because: internet"
Joe "Oh mate you need to go on a diet your suffering from infobesity"

by Stewpotlee November 27, 2013

infobesity

Being a portmanteau of "information" and "obesity", this slang term refers to the information overload (with "obesity" meaning "overload") which can be caused by many causative factors like excessive Internet surfing on a smartphone with Internet capability (remember, not a basic phone with no Internet capability).

Ever since I started scrolling through endless news feeds on my smartphone, I've been suffering from serious infobesity—my brain feels stuffed with useless information!

by Emotional Cruiser November 18, 2025