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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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Freakomailogy
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy
Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.
Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY
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
Re: pulsive
Created by: Nicked
Pronunciation: re puls iv
Sentence: When I discovered that I would rather send an email to his cell phone than to walk into the next room to speak to him in person, I knew I was re: pulsive.
Etymology: Re: Email speak for "in response to" + pulsive from compulsive
Emailosis
Created by: cujoe
Pronunciation: E-mail-o-sis
Sentence: He emailed her when she was 3 feet away! He has a bad case of Emailosis.
Etymology: Combination of Email and psychosis.
Maelresivitus
Created by: h4ste
Pronunciation: mail-receive-itus
Sentence: Son, you've got a bad case of maelresivitus. Even when im just in front of you, you're texting me your replies.
Etymology: mail + recieve + itus
Technopendent
Created by: futebollounge
Pronunciation: tek-no-pen-dent
Sentence: Michael, who was technopendant all his life vomited during his first encounter with Alice, the girl he met on myspace.
Etymology: developed 5 minutes ago in my filthy brain
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COMMENTS:
awesome word u win :) - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 16:51:00
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Eddiction
Created by: greystarling
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Man, I gotta cure me of this eddiction, it's getting out of hand - I'm checking my email in my sleep!
Etymology: compound noun from "e" of electronic (eg. email, ebook), and "addiction"
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 :)