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DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
Verboticisms
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Eblivious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee bliv ee us
Sentence: Joanie become so addicted to her computer, that she became eblivious to everyone and everything else around her. Between her e-mails, surfing the Net, playing games, shopping online, ordering food electronically, competing on her daily Verbotomy site, gambling on-line, doing surveys and writing her own blog about the life she used to lead as a human, she had no time for anything else. Not only did she let her personal hygiene and appearance lapse, she was developing rectangular eyeballs and callouses on her fingertips from clicking and dragging all day and night. What would become of her when they shut off her e-lectricity and she had to face the real world once again? Oh, Joanie, how your eblivion has cost you...
Etymology: e - (shortcut prefix for electronic) & oblivious - (unaware of or paying no attention to somebody or something; forgetting about somebody or something)
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COMMENTS:
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-07-08: 21:11:00
Another great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:32:00
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Ecivilated
Created by: jrinka
Pronunciation: e-civil-ated
Sentence: He's been ecivilated for months now.
Etymology: electronic, civilization
Veearget
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: vee-ahr-GEHT
Sentence: Alex veeargot his school assignment because the file was tucked behind his Sims screen.
Etymology: vee + ar [(v)irtual (r)eality] + forget
Laptoplivion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lap top liv ee an
Sentence: Megan Hertz lives her life in laptoplivion, totally removed from the realities of daily life. She lives in the fantasy realm of the Internet and loses herself there for hours, even days at a time. She neglects herself and subsides on a daily diet of bytes of Apple, cookies, nybbles, Spam, Mac & GEOS, washed down with Java and Port. Her poor diet is ruining her memory and if she does not watch it, she will end up with a deadly virus.
Etymology: Laptop (a portable computer small enough to use in your lap) & Oblivion (the state of being disregarded or forgotten; total forgetfulness)
Laptrapped
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lap/trap/ed
Sentence: Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends' problems.
Etymology: LAPTRAPPED - verb - from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user's lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free)
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COMMENTS:
LAPTRAPPED is good.Punchy, bold and dynamic. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:46:00
For exercise she could always lap-dance! - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:35:00
So many excellent words today. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:31:00
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Virtualitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vərchoōəlītis
Sentence: Jill has a bad case of virtualitis. Her on-line personality is fascinating. She skydives, surfs professionally, builds her own choppers and is in training for the next X Games. If only any of this was true. Her on-line photo album on has more Photo Shop work than a year*s worth of Playboy covers. When a couple of her friends tried to rally all of her friends from Facebook to help her, they found that many of them were made up too, other iterations of Jill herself.
Etymology: virtual (not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so) + itis (forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Microselfed
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: my - kro - selfd
Sentence: Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did "look up" from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either.
Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self
Appleoplexy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: app ell op lex ee
Sentence: She suffered from appleoplexy . I I I
Etymology: apoplext apple
Oblivionline
Created by: vetmommy2
Pronunciation: Uh-Bliv-ee-on-lyne
Sentence: He was so oblivionline that he often forgot about his only real friends, his goldfish, spending many late night hours trying to create punny definitions and chatting with other fellow oblivionlinuses.
Etymology: Oblivious: to be unaware of one's surroundings or situation + On-line, a world where reality is marginalized.
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COMMENTS:
OBLIVIONLINE- I love it, vetmommy2 !
I squandered my votes already... sorry :) - metrohumanx, 2008-07-10: 21:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game" which is published in Overclocked. It was also suggested by HubbMU.
Thank you Cory and HubbMU! ~ James
Weeklink rants again and uncovers a few lost words from last week's verbacious verbuttle. Read: The Cup of Verbotomy, Part Deux.
HubbMU - 2007-05-08: 10:08:00
Thanks for using my definition!
Thank you HubbMu. It's a great definition. A lot of people can relate to it -- especially if they are gamers or bloggers. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-08: 12:52:00
Great to see all the new Verbotomists!
ECLUSIONIST is pretty good.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
cybersloth - 2010-01-02: 06:40:00
I would like to rebut your comments on the definition of cybersloth seen here (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=6790). 'cybersloth' is methodical and accurate, knows what move to make but it may take time. Not the friend of the impatient. From a theological view point I feel that you are free to think what you will about any subject; however you must be careful because all actions have consequences. Luckily I am not easily offended. I believe that I am not the only cybersloth, I may be the only one that is spelt exclusively with all lower case. By the way, I don’t use social networking sites and spend more time working on local resources both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, if this does not make sense to you………. cybersloth. 02-01-2010