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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.
Verboticisms
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Permajacked
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: PUR-mah-jakd
Sentence: Man, ever since Troy got his high-speed cable, he's been permajacked into World of Warcraft. He THINKS he's an elf paladin, but he smells like an ogre...
Etymology: permanent, jacked
Cyberecluse
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sībərekloōs
Sentence: Graduating from high school has not been a good thing for Julie. Sure, she will be heading off to college soon but for now she has become a cyberecluse. Her Facebook account is the most active thing in her life.
Etymology: cyber (of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology) + recluse (a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people)
Digintrance
Created by: whatley
Pronunciation: Di-jin-trance
Sentence: JP sat digintranced by the game, his eyes glazed over and dully staring at a monitor surrounded by cigarette butts, Mountain Dew cans, and filth.
Etymology: From Eng. Entranced by the Digital. 1993. Growing availability of digital cable and high grade cannabis in the early 1990s entranced America with hundreds of new channels of mindless programming.
Interwed
Created by: marinus
Pronunciation: in-ter-wed
Sentence: There's no reason to be interwed to our forums all day. Please, go out and get some fresh air.
Etymology: internet + wed(ding)
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?
Virtrance
Created by: greytellie
Pronunciation: ver-transs
Sentence: I found myself completely virtranced by the charm of on-line communities.
Etymology: Vir...for virtual and trance...a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing
Interweblah
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: in-ter-web-blah
Sentence: Wikipedia is a huge time suck. You start off looking up useful information and four hours of interweblah later and you've ended up extensively editing an article about kitten foot warmers.
Etymology: interweb + blah
Cybertranced
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SYE - behr - transed
Sentence: Hector had become thoroughly cybertranced and during most of his waking hours was totally absorbed in online gaming, surfing the net, updating his blog and 'googling' one thing after another.
Etymology: Blend of the prefix 'cyber' and tranced, a form of trance (a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing)
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COMMENTS:
Very clever - TJayzz, 2008-07-08: 08:27:00
very melodic word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 10:58:00
Good one...CYBERTRANCED is descriptive with just the right amount of new-age overtones... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-08: 15:50:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:10:00
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Realignore
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ɹiˌæləɡˈnɔːɹ/ /rE-'a-l&g-'nor/
Sentence: Those who realignore their physical lives need to realize that their corporeal bodies are a lot like virtual pets and require frequent attention; in many cases the problem becomes substance neglect.
Etymology: From reality + ignore
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COMMENTS:
The most overlooked word of the day! Good one!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:21:00
Thanks. I like "substance neglect" better, but it's not a verb, and it's two words. - ErWenn, 2007-05-09: 00:26:00
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Pseudomersifliction
Created by: everdred
Pronunciation: sudo (like unix), merci (like french), fliction (like something or the other)
Sentence:
Etymology: pseudo (fake) [im]'mersi (something suggesting immersion) [af]'fliction
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