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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.

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Asciphilia

Created by: DrHarvey

Pronunciation: Ass-key-fill-eya

Sentence: I've managed to impress the girl across from me at the library - I think - though our relationship is purely asciphilic.

Etymology: 'Ascii' - form of digital text or code '-philia' - from the Greek 'to love'

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Converivacy

Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: con-ver-i-va-cee

Sentence: I want to talk to some of my co-workers, but don't want the others to hear. So one of my colleagues and I engage in converivacy.

Etymology: conversation + privacy

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Aimania

Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: ay-mayn-ee-a

Sentence: "Here's the link for the AIMania support site that I messaged you about."

Etymology: AIM + mania

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Epistuposis

Created by: AetasSerenus

Pronunciation: epi-stu-posis

Sentence: A friend of mine has developed a bad case of epistuposis, I haven't spoke face to face with her for over a month

Etymology: From the latin words epístula and pósitus, meaning e-mail and addict

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Stewhawk

Created by: jadakiss98682

Pronunciation: stew-hawk

Sentence: *Sees two people on their laptops flirting. "get off the laptop and tap that you stewhawk!"

Etymology: stephen hawking was the influence on this one...... considering the fact that the man is scared to speak out of his own mouth :))) i still love you stewie

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COMMENTS:

so creative sooo so much - jadakiss98682, 2007-08-29: 17:01:00

pretty clever - futebollounge, 2007-08-29: 17:03:00

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