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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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Virtucosmitis
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: VER-tyoo-KOZ-my-TISS
Sentence: I'm afraid he's come down with a bad case of virtucosmitis, Mrs Jenkins. We recommend either confiscating his electronic equipment, or locking him away in a padded room, for life.
Etymology: From "virtual" + "cosmos" (universe) + "-itis"
Cybertranced
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SYE - behr - transed
Sentence: Hector had become thoroughly cybertranced and during most of his waking hours was totally absorbed in online gaming, surfing the net, updating his blog and 'googling' one thing after another.
Etymology: Blend of the prefix 'cyber' and tranced, a form of trance (a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing)
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COMMENTS:
Very clever - TJayzz, 2008-07-08: 08:27:00
very melodic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 10:58:00
Good one...CYBERTRANCED is descriptive with just the right amount of new-age overtones... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:50:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:10:00
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Egonesia
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: ego ne sia
Sentence: Her chatroom buddies realized egonesia had gripped their friend.
Etymology: ego - self nesia (shortening of amnesia)
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COMMENTS:
If it could be two words then ego amnesia would be better. - texmom, 2007-05-09: 21:55:00
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Emmersed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee murst
Sentence: she became so Emmersed in her second life that she would have festered away altogether had her broadband coverage been anything as good as she was told it would be.
Etymology: immersed, e as in electronic
Virtuallifed
Created by: pifty
Pronunciation: vrtjualajfd
Sentence: being virtuallifed makes her forget about the real world.
Etymology: virtual + life
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
Stinkohsurfer
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: stink-oh-sur-fer
Sentence: Bethanie Ohreeker lived on her computer and was known as being a reclusive stinkohsurfer girl.
Etymology: Stink - To Smell Badly, Body Odor Surfer - One who surfs the web.
Virteener
Created by: brucee10
Pronunciation: vir - teen - er
Sentence: The virteener's natural habitat is uninhabital by humans. Even his mother is afraid to enter her own basement.
Etymology: Virtual + Teenage + Slacker
Arelamnesiac
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: ar-el-amnesiac
Sentence: She is just across the room, but she still insists on IMing me and even then only responds to her SecondLife name - she is definitely turning into an arelamnesiac.
Etymology: RL = Real Life + amnesiac = one whose memory has been disturbed
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COMMENTS:
She's definitely a very 'e-nal' person! Graet original word!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:11:00
**great** - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:12:00
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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