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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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Imagaddict
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: i maj ad dikt
Sentence: I am sick and tired off looking in through the window and seeing you imagaddicting while I enjoy the sun outside.
Etymology: imagination (the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses) + addict (a person who is obsessed with something in particular)
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)
Emmersed
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ee-murst
Sentence: Between her smart phone, tablet and laptop, Suzy is completely emmersed. Last month her friends had to tweat her to remind her to go to her wedding.
Etymology: e: electronic - immersed: plunged or sunk in or as if in a liquid
Uploadead
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: up-low-dead
Sentence: She uploadead herself into hyperheaven.
Etymology: upload - for uploading your mind dead - because you might seem dead to others while walking happily in the invisible cloudy of hyperheaven...
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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Slobatronicated
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Slobb-a-tron-i-kay-ted
Sentence: Jerry had become so slobatronicated over the past few months spending so much time on his computer, playing games and contacting his online buddies, that he lost his job, all his real-life friends and his appearance resembled that of a tramp. The worst thing was, he was so engrossed in his cosy virtual world he had hardly noticed.
Etymology: Slob(behving in a slovenly manner) + electronic(relating to or carried out by means of a computer or other electronic device) = Slobatronicated
Eclusionist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: E-kluh-SHUN-ist.
Sentence: Roxie became so immersed in a world of virtual reality that she became e-communicado; an Eclusionist (E-clusionist) living in a world of E-bay, E-food and, when speaking, doing so only in in E-speranto.
Etymology: E: prefix used to describe anything related to the internet; cyberspace & CLUDERE: to shut up, enclose, close up, confine," from L. secludere "shut off, confine," "to shut". Meaning "to remove from public view" Based on seclusion ; exclusionist. Cognates: Eclusion; Eclusionery, Eclusionate.
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COMMENTS:
sounds a bit e-litist - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 13:31:00
E-xcellent word... - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:33:00
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Elone
Created by: stvspl
Pronunciation: EE-low-n
Sentence: Paula thought she had so many friends, but in actuality, she was elone.
Etymology: e- (prefix for computerish things) + alone (what digitally immersed people are)
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COMMENTS:
Well done! - geoamnesia, 2007-05-08: 18:51:00
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Realignore
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ɹiˌæləɡˈnɔːɹ/ /rE-'a-l&g-'nor/
Sentence: Those who realignore their physical lives need to realize that their corporeal bodies are a lot like virtual pets and require frequent attention; in many cases the problem becomes substance neglect.
Etymology: From reality + ignore
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COMMENTS:
The most overlooked word of the day! Good one!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:21:00
Thanks. I like "substance neglect" better, but it's not a verb, and it's two words. - ErWenn, 2007-05-09: 00:26:00
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Avatarded
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Ahv-ah-tar-ded
Sentence: His aparment was a wreck - food strewn about the floor in a semi-intelligent arc tracing from the door to the computer. And the place REEKED. Johan wondered if Mike could be... avatarded.
Etymology: Avatar + retarded
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