Verboticism: Hyperspacecadet
DEFINITION: n. A person who is so enamored with their online identity that they believe that it is more real than their physical one. v. To suddenly realize that you are large, blubbery mammal with no useful superpowers.
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Avatarnation
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: avah-TAR-nay-shun
Sentence: Mark's job with the show "To catch a predator" required him to spend a great deal of time online posing as a naive 13 year old girl. He didn't see this as a problem until he came to the realization in a fit of avatarnation that his mind was slowly starting to think like that of a 13 year old girl. His wife was even starting to become a bit concerned when he hung up posters of Justin Timberlake in their bedroom. Avatarnation!!
Etymology: Avatar -a little picture representing an online user Tarnation - a colloquial euphemish in the South Eastern US for Damnation often expressed as "What in tarnation?!"
Cyberlusional
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: si ber lu sjin al
Sentence: Since playing WoW, Doug has covered up all the mirrors in his house. He is so cyberlusional
Etymology: cyber + delusion
Spiderwombman
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: spy/dur/woom/man
Sentence: Mary Jane fervently believed she was Spider Woman and even had a tatoo of a spider on her belly. When she was pregnant wearing a crop top she thought her secret was out when people started saying Spiderwomb-Man!! when they passed by.
Etymology: spiderwoman + womb
Whoevertar
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: whoo ever tar
Sentence: Wally the beached human whale thought he really looked like the whoevertar of a sleek super hero he carried around on his communications device. His phasers were always on stunning.
Etymology: Whoever (someone or anyone who does a particular thing or is in a particular situation) & Avatar (a new personification of a familiar idea;
Naivatar
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ni - eev - atar
Sentence: Rory's naivatar refused to believe who he really was. He was so taken in by how he looked in Second Life that he stopped believing he really had a first life.
Etymology: naive (deficient in relevant experience),avatar (a computer user's representation of himself)
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COMMENTS:
also reminds reminds me of navigating on the computer - from page to page. - splendiction, 2009-05-15: 23:29:00
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Virtunotso
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Virtue not so
Sentence: After a stunning virtuoso performance the night before Dave was beginning to wonder who was real and who was the dream. When he gazed into the mirror the next morning the virtunotso reality of his life struck a major blow to his fantasies.
Etymology: A play on virtual and virtuoso: Dave, the virtunotso
Cyberliar
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: cy-ber-lie-ur
Sentence: When she met her online date it was apparent that Joe was quite the cyberliar. His psuedo-muscular debonair description must have vanished overnight as she stared at the flabby bald guy sitting in the prearranged booth.
Etymology: cyber--all things online liar--deciever of the truth
Avatarsehole
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: av at ar soul
Sentence: only a complete avatarsehole would have come to his sister's wedding in a apider suit
Etymology: avatar arsehole
Immortified
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: ihm-mohr-tih-feyed
Sentence: Siggie's Id had always claimed he was immortal. His Superego told him if he ate his veggies, was a good boy, watched out for fast cars and bad women he might not die too young. But, looking in the mirror that day, his deflated Ego was immortified as he realized his real identity could no longer bounce between the other two. He was becoming self-fractualized!
Etymology: Blending IMMORTAL, meaning exempt from death + MORTIFIED (from the Latin/French MORT, meaning death), meaning humiliated. References are playing with Freud's theories of personality development and Maslow's self-actualization. (What do I know???)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-15: 10:28:00
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