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DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
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Emmersed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee murst
Sentence: she became so Emmersed in her second life that she would have festered away altogether had her broadband coverage been anything as good as she was told it would be.
Etymology: immersed, e as in electronic
Cyberspacey
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: sy-ber-spay-see
Sentence: If you need help, don't ask Stacey -- She's too cyberspacey.
Etymology: cyber + spacey
Appleoplexy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: app ell op lex ee
Sentence: She suffered from appleoplexy . I I I
Etymology: apoplext apple
Gretful
Created by: Tommy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: the act-> gretful, totally immersed -> gretfully, Addicted, repeatedly going past the point of being fired-> REgretful
Figmentity
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: fig MENT i tee
Sentence: Ava Tar ran an online business, ordered most things she needed on the Internet for home delivery, and "socialized" mostly with her online "friends," so she rarely left the house because she didn't need to. She existed mainly as a web-based figmentity. Unfortunately, she realized too late that her online "friends" couldn't help her with moving to her new apartment.
Etymology: figment + entity (being, existence, something or someone having a real existence)
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COMMENTS:
Love her name. too! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:19:00
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Simsify
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: sims + ih + fie
Sentence: My Sim is about to finally have enough friends to get a better job, and you want me to worry about going to WORK? I'm a little too Simsified for that, my friend.
Etymology: Ever played The Sims?
Disechanted
Created by: gregoryba
Pronunciation: dis-ee-chanted
Sentence: i've become disechanted with the real world, time to immerse myself in irc.
Etymology: i dunno, i just made it up
Cybiosise
Created by: duchessella
Pronunciation: cy-BY-o-size
Sentence: She cybiosises with abandon; we haven't seen her for 3 months, except when online.
Etymology: Cyber + symbiosis cyber - that's pretty obvious symbiosis - the state of living dependently with something; the computer in this case
Digirot
Created by: Kurisu
Pronunciation: 'di-ji&-rät'
Sentence: I had all kinds or real world responsibilities, but chose instead to digirot.
Etymology: Digital: of, relating to, or being data in the form of especially binary digits + Rot: to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game" which is published in Overclocked. It was also suggested by HubbMU.
Thank you Cory and HubbMU! ~ James
Weeklink rants again and uncovers a few lost words from last week's verbacious verbuttle. Read: The Cup of Verbotomy, Part Deux.
HubbMU - 2007-05-08: 10:08:00
Thanks for using my definition!
Thank you HubbMu. It's a great definition. A lot of people can relate to it -- especially if they are gamers or bloggers. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-08: 12:52:00
Great to see all the new Verbotomists!
ECLUSIONIST is pretty good.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
cybersloth - 2010-01-02: 06:40:00
I would like to rebut your comments on the definition of cybersloth seen here (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=6790). 'cybersloth' is methodical and accurate, knows what move to make but it may take time. Not the friend of the impatient. From a theological view point I feel that you are free to think what you will about any subject; however you must be careful because all actions have consequences. Luckily I am not easily offended. I believe that I am not the only cybersloth, I may be the only one that is spelt exclusively with all lower case. By the way, I don’t use social networking sites and spend more time working on local resources both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, if this does not make sense to you………. cybersloth. 02-01-2010