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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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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
Depitute
Created by: Bertie
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I broke into the flat only to find that the poor soul was already depitute.
Etymology:
Virtualitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vərchoōəlītis
Sentence: Jill has a bad case of virtualitis. Her on-line personality is fascinating. She skydives, surfs professionally, builds her own choppers and is in training for the next X Games. If only any of this was true. Her on-line photo album on has more Photo Shop work than a year*s worth of Playboy covers. When a couple of her friends tried to rally all of her friends from Facebook to help her, they found that many of them were made up too, other iterations of Jill herself.
Etymology: virtual (not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so) + itis (forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Appleoplexy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: app ell op lex ee
Sentence: She suffered from appleoplexy . I I I
Etymology: apoplext apple
Hypnetized
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: hip-net-ized
Sentence: Bob got hypnetized by Youtube for 8 hours straight. Later, his wife had to use WD40 to peel his butt from the vinyl chair.
Etymology: hypnotized, net
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COMMENTS:
Bob got hypnetized by Youtube for 8 hours straight. Later, his wife had to use WD40 to peel his butt from the vinyl chair. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:33:00
Obviously, I'm suffering from sleep depverbation. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:36:00
very hyp - galwaywegian, 2007-05-08: 07:43:00
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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.
Netwrecked
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: net - rek -d
Sentence: I had a lot of stuff to do this weekend, but then I started reading wikipedia and got totally netwrecked.
Etymology: network + wrecked
Dellusional
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: del loo shun al
Sentence: Fern was obsessed with being online 24/7. She never went outside nor did traditional social meets. All her relationships and schooling were online, not based in reality. In fact she had become very dellusional of late and only a major power cut would bring her back to reality!
Etymology: Dell (Computer company founded by Michael Dell in 1984) & Delusional (suffering from or characterized by delusions)
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