English
informationist
From information + -ist.
Formed from information + -ist
Latin fōrma
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Latin īnfōrmō ‘to form, give shape to’
Latin īnfōrmātiō ‘formation, conception; education’
Anglo-Norman informacioun
Middle English enformacioun
English information
first attested Informationist and informationism are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway (as stated in the etymology)
The story
Informationist and informationism are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.
Today it means
noun One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
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Etymograph / informationist