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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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Cybersloth
Created by: moscop
Pronunciation: sigh-bur-sloth
Sentence: Completely unaware of the demolition of his house, in a true cybersloth manner, Jim continued surfing the internet for the best deal on a comfy computer chair.
Etymology: cyber (internet ala William Gibson) + sloth (as in the seven deadly sins)
Arelamnesiac
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: ar-el-amnesiac
Sentence: She is just across the room, but she still insists on IMing me and even then only responds to her SecondLife name - she is definitely turning into an arelamnesiac.
Etymology: RL = Real Life + amnesiac = one whose memory has been disturbed
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COMMENTS:
She's definitely a very 'e-nal' person! Graet original word!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:11:00
**great** - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:12:00
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Eblivious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee bliv ee us
Sentence: Joanie become so addicted to her computer, that she became eblivious to everyone and everything else around her. Between her e-mails, surfing the Net, playing games, shopping online, ordering food electronically, competing on her daily Verbotomy site, gambling on-line, doing surveys and writing her own blog about the life she used to lead as a human, she had no time for anything else. Not only did she let her personal hygiene and appearance lapse, she was developing rectangular eyeballs and callouses on her fingertips from clicking and dragging all day and night. What would become of her when they shut off her e-lectricity and she had to face the real world once again? Oh, Joanie, how your eblivion has cost you...
Etymology: e - (shortcut prefix for electronic) & oblivious - (unaware of or paying no attention to somebody or something; forgetting about somebody or something)
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COMMENTS:
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-07-08: 21:11:00
Another great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-09: 03:32:00
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Irrwebsponsible
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: ear-wib-spon-sib-el
Sentence: Two hours on that computer of hers and she becomes so irrwebsponsible that she sometimes forgets to breathe.
Etymology: Irresponsible (unreliable) + web (internet)
Bookfaced
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: bOOk-feisd
Sentence: As she started building her profile at facebook, friends began to pop up, groups showed themselves. Soon she was completely facebooked!
Etymology: facebooked/bookfaced
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
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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Pretendemic
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: pre-tend-em-ick
Sentence: Jane's neglect of personal hygeine, nutrition and fresh air in favour of instant messaging her online buddies was a clear sign that she'd succumbed to the virtual reality pretendemic.
Etymology: pretend (make believe) & endemic (a disease characteristic of certain places or people)
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - Nosila, 2011-04-13: 18:56:00
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Cybermerse
Created by: mjmlabs
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-MERS
Sentence: I wanted to get a bunch of chores done last weekend, but I wound up cybermersing for 53 hours instead; what day is this?
Etymology: cyber- + immerse (simple, really)
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COMMENTS:
Nice use of the 'merse'! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:07:00
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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