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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.

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Aimania

Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: ay-mayn-ee-a

Sentence: "Here's the link for the AIMania support site that I messaged you about."

Etymology: AIM + mania

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Stewhawk

Created by: jadakiss98682

Pronunciation: stew-hawk

Sentence: *Sees two people on their laptops flirting. "get off the laptop and tap that you stewhawk!"

Etymology: stephen hawking was the influence on this one...... considering the fact that the man is scared to speak out of his own mouth :))) i still love you stewie

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COMMENTS:

so creative sooo so much - jadakiss98682, 2007-08-29: 17:01:00

pretty clever - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 17:03:00

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Epistuposis

Created by: AetasSerenus

Pronunciation: epi-stu-posis

Sentence: A friend of mine has developed a bad case of epistuposis, I haven't spoke face to face with her for over a month

Etymology: From the latin words epístula and pósitus, meaning e-mail and addict

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Etwittermania

Created by: woofmaster

Pronunciation: e-twit-ter-may-nee-uh

Sentence: I'm sorry, Mrs. Collins. Your son -- your son has etwittermania. He's an etwittermaniac.

Etymology: From "e" (from e-mail, etc.), "twitter" (to twitter on, and, also, Twitter), mania (a suffix typically applied to obsessive behavioral disorders).

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Textmania

Created by: duefiori

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Freaktronic

Created by: ironnie

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Etymology: freak + electronic

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Etardation

Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: e-tard-ay-shun

Sentence: His etardation reached it's pinnacle when he requested a video conference from across the room.

Etymology: e (for electronic, like in e-mail) + retardation

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Internependent

Created by: thesteviest

Pronunciation: in-ter-ne-PEN-dent

Sentence: Internepents Anonymous first step is to take a group of people and their lap tops out of the same room and make them converse through instant messaging from different rooms.

Etymology: internet and dependent

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