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Webster's New World College Dictionary Announces Top Five Candidates for 2008 Word of the Year.

leisure sickness: a purported syndrome, not universally recognized by psychologists, by which some people (typically characterized as workaholics) are more likely to report feeling ill during weekends and vacations than when working.

overshare: to divulge excessive personal information, as in a blog or broadcast interview, prompting reactions ranging from alarmed discomfort to approval

cyberchondriac: a hypochondriac who imagines that he or she has a particular disease based on medical information gleaned from the Internet

selective ignorance: the practice of selectively ignoring distracting, irrelevant, or otherwise unnecessary information received, such as e-mails, news reports, etc.

youthanasia: "...The controversial practice of performing a battery of age-defying medical procedures to end lifeless skin and wrinkles; advocated by some as a last-resort measure to put the chronically youth-obsessed out of their misery…Think of it as mercy lifting." --Armand Limnander, New York Times