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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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Emessagia
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ee-mes-ij-ee-ah
Sentence: The fonts that his co worker used made him want to stick pins in his eyes, maybe he was suffering from a bad case of emessagia.
Etymology: a mental disorder characterized by compulsive e-messaging
Imdependency
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
Proximailing
Created by: jenorthar
Pronunciation: prox-email-ing
Sentence: Although they were sitting together on the couch, Bob and Jane continued proximailing each other in silence.
Etymology: proximity + emailing
Digitool
Created by: Ra1111
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The only cure for Digitool Syndrome is to strand the person in the wilderness and if they should make it out alive, send them to live with the Amish.
Etymology: Digital/Tool
Cybereliance
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: seye berr rell eye ens
Sentence: His cyberreliance was so bad he would regularly spam himself.
Etymology: cyber reliance
Cybersessisyndromic
Created by: logorrhoea
Pronunciation: Si-ber-ses-ee-sin-drom-ik
Sentence: John sends 60 e-mails per hour but he hasn't spoken to any of his colleauges this month. He's been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as cybersessisyndromic.
Etymology: cyber + obsessed + syndrome
Eddicted
Created by: IneffableDawn
Pronunciation: ee-dik-ted
Sentence: Bob was so eddicted that his college professor had to email him with a message that said, "Yes, Bob?" When he raised his hand in class.
Etymology: E: From 'e-mail' ddicted: from 'addicted'
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 :)