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'Did you get my email?'

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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Ependent

Created by: Tesher

Pronunciation: e-pen-dent

Sentence: Adam is completely ependent. He even sends text messages to his girlfriend while they are making out.

Etymology: Electronic (abbreviated as 'E') - dependent (may be varied to -dant for the British)

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Textophilia

Created by: applesnpairs

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Mailegamaniac

Created by: lvinning

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Jerkmailiac

Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: jurk mayl ee ak

Sentence: Sanford is a jerkmailiac

Etymology: jerk + junkmail + insomniac

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Technosloth

Created by: Neej13

Pronunciation: TEK-no-sloth

Sentence: A true technosloth, Barry preferred to email his cubicle neighbor about whether he'd attend today's meeting, rather than respond directly.

Etymology: Technology + sloth

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Yahoophoria

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: Ya-who-four-ee-ya

Sentence: Dennis spent most of his day in a state of Yahoophoria, compulsively chacking his email and im-ing his cubicle mate.

Etymology: Yahoo (email, IM service) and euphoria

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Simbiotic

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: SIM-bi-o-tic

Sentence: Mat and Tracey had a simbiotic relationship that was made stronger by the fact that neither had to face the other.

Etymology: a perversion of symbiotic that incorporates IM (Instant Message)

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Compunicatosis

Created by: bonus

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Socialelectrono

Created by: pinkpearls94

Pronunciation: social-electrouno

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Imdependency

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: IM-dependency

Sentence: Bill's impediment to social interaction was his imdependency. It got so bad that even when he locked away his laptop, he kept throwing LOLs and BTWs into the conversation.

Etymology: IM (instant messaging) + dependency

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Comments:

jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 17:02:00
click on stewhawk and check the etymology of the word. it only makes sense

jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 18:01:00
stewhawk = stephen hawking awesome :)