civictruant
/ˈsɪvɪkˌtruːənt/nounVerified NewA person who skips the news as a wellness practice, carrying the specific guilt of knowing the skipping is part of the problem.
Opting out is prescribed as self-care, and the skipper feels better and worse at once: calmer, and haunted by the sense that attention was a duty being shirked. The guilt is the toll paid for the quiet.
Etym. — civic + truant — the citizen as a schoolchild playing hooky from the news.
Novelty check: NEW · checked 2026-11-08
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