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DEFINITION: n. A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart. v. To email, twitter, or text compulsively.
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Eddiction
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ee-dik-shuhn
Sentence: Ronnie's eddiction is so bad that he has to email himself reminders to eat meals or shower. He even bought a waterproof housing for his phone so he won't miss any incoming texts.
Etymology: e (electronic) + addiction (the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma)
Texican
Created by: tommyboy
Pronunciation: teks-eh-ken
Sentence: her over-dependency on facebook practically grants her texican citizenship.
Etymology: hmm
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COMMENTS:
Bueno! - Nosila, 2009-09-24: 01:32:00
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Ediction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee dik shun
Sentence: Best pals Joanie and Charlie had such an ediction to their computers, they barely spoke to one another. Most of their communication was through their e-mails, texts and twitters. They did not even think it odd that they paid so much for their on-line chats, which they could do for free in person. This e-pulsive e-havior and e-diction was one of the e-vils of the e-lectronic e-ra, e-pparently!
Etymology: e-electronic;addiction (compulsion; habit-forming;psychological necessity)
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COMMENTS:
e-gad - galwaywegian, 2011-02-07: 10:20:00
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Commpulsion
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom puhlll shun
Sentence: Harry the commpulsive comms wizard told his fluffy white owl his message carrying services would no longer be required since the arrival of twitter. Twitt? to who? his feathered ex-friend hooted
Etymology: communications, compulsion
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COMMENTS:
What a hoot...owl like it! - Nosila, 2009-09-23: 10:36:00
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Textopathy
Created by: Shellbow
Pronunciation: teks-TAW-path-ee
Sentence: He suffered so severely from textopathy that the joints in both of his thumbs were permanently inflamed.
Etymology: Text (to send text messages) + pathy (a disease of, or abnormality)
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COMMENTS:
This is much better for me than watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory. - Shellbow, 2013-11-01: 23:18:00
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Tweetfreak
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: tweet - freek
Sentence: When I met Elijah, I knew there was something different about him. He seemed to be mute. If I asked him a question, he would smile and type. By the time I walked away, I had the answer on my Blackberry. Elijah had become a tweetfreak; he had apparantly decided he would rather twitter than talk.
Etymology: tweet (Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets), freak (addict: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction)
Elecbonics
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ee-lec-bon-ix
Sentence: Bob had an addydiction and spoke only in elecbonics, so by the time he could e-mail his coworkers that he "did believe he was experiencing an acute myocardial infarction," it was too late.
Etymology: electronic, ebonics
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COMMENTS:
it actually sounds like a malady - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 10:17:00
Hmmmm.... let me see if I can change it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-06: 11:29:00
that's a good word too - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 13:41:00
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Networkitis
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: net-werk-EYE-tis
Sentence: Gilbert has long been suffering from networkitis, a psychological condition that can only be relieved by near constant networking with others thru emails, text messaging, twitter, Facebook, chats and instant messaging. The prognosis is not good.
Etymology: Based on the word 'network' (v. to connect with others on line) with the addition of the suffix -itis ( denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions)
Needymail
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: nee-dee-meyl
Sentence: Jackie's neeymailing issue had gotten her Blackberry taken away and a free trip to the principal's office. Twitching her fingers, she now sat outside.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
this is good - wordmeister, 2007-03-22: 16:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus.
Thank you Antimus! ~ James
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
You know what's creepy that I didn't notice before now? The guy in this cartoon kinda looks like me.
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
Kinda.
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus. Thank you Antimus. ~ James
Glad to see that everyone is talking with their fingers! Jasper Fforde certainly does it. And I was at a talk last night by August de los Reyes, creative director at Microsoft Surface, where they are designing a touch interface for the next generation computers. He says we are moving closer and closer to immateriality. I think that means fiction is becoming reality. That's we need people like Thursday Next -- Special Operatives in Jurisfiction -- to keep the story straight. ~ James