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DEFINITION: v. To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. n. A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device.
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Appleratus
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/pul/ra/tus
Sentence: "Let's see"..."I have my iPod, my iPhone and my Macbook. That's all my appleratus so now I'm all macked, oh sorry I meant packed."
Etymology: apple + apparatus
Syndrotechnophilin
Created by: someperson101
Pronunciation: sɪndrotɛknofɪlən
Sentence: The syndrotechnophilin usually doesn't get out of bed, but it served by his/her phone (by ordering pizza) and will lay by the door and wait for pizza.
Etymology: syndrome + technophile
Technobsess
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: teck-no-ob-sess
Sentence: Of course all the slow walking people ahead were slowing her pace down. There should be a law she thought, all those technobsessed people texting while walking should get a ticket, especially the ones stopped dead in their tracks. Those who particularly can't spell and walk at the same time. These are the same people who cannot chew gum and walk at the same time.
Etymology: techno (short for technology as in current electronic gadgets) + obsess (to dominate, besiege, control)
Gismaddiction
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: GIZ-auh-dik-shun
Sentence: Being smitten with a very passionate gizmadiction, Warren could not pass up any opportunity to fiddle with technological toys or devices and often made a complete fool of himself as he did not have a thorough understanding of some of the systems and applications he often used.
Etymology: Blend of 'gizmo' (A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget) and 'addiction' (Compulsive physiological and psychological need)
Ebrainsupport
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: e brain sup port
Sentence: After the heavy use of electronic devices, multimedia cell phones, greyberries and computers, dependency occurs: the human brain ceases to function independently, and requires ebrainsupport systems to think. While on ebrainsupport, an individual can produce thought, make basic decisions, access memory stored on the system. Consider Ella here: her ebrainsupport remembers her name for her and can do many things for her. Unfortunately, those who reach brain death and require ebrainsupport lose a sense of who they really are - personality becomes redundant.
Etymology: From LIFE SUPPORT and electronic = electronic brain support system.
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COMMENTS:
bye ;/ - splendiction, 2009-04-30: 23:10:00
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Gadjitters
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: gadd-jiht-terz
Sentence: Whenever Das couldn't find her iphone she got the gadjitters so bad the ringtones in her head wouldn't stop until she'd had a triple shot in her chocolate mint mocha.
Etymology: GADJET + JITTERS
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COMMENTS:
sounds yummy - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-30: 12:58:00
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Cyberspaced
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: sy-bur-spaysd
Sentence: She was google-eyed and about to crash. She was so cyberspaced that she couldn't remember her own name without checking her iphone's contact list. She needed a nap to reboot.
Etymology: CYBERSPACE (the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place) + SPACED (to become stupified or disoriented from or as if from a drug.)
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COMMENTS:
another great word and the sentence always woes me over - DrWebster111, 2009-05-01: 18:52:00
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Phonopendent
Created by: kenedyb
Pronunciation: phone-o-pen-dent
Sentence: phonopendent means that you can not function properly with out your phone
Etymology:
Ependent
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēpendənt
Sentence: Some people write themselves notes to remember important things. John will text or e-mail himself to keep his life in order. He is absolutely ependent. Between his laptop and iPhone everything he does is scheduled, planned or stored electronically. His answer to almost any task or question presented is "I have an app for that". He almost had a crisis last Friday when he forgot to schedule bathroom breaks. Luckily he still has a residual biological override.
Etymology: e (denoting anything in an electronic state, esp. the use of electronic data transfer in cyberspace) + dependent (unable to do without)
Ethetic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ee-thet-ik
Sentence: When it comes to personal communications Wendall is ethetic. If he can't email, text, IM or tweet he can't communicate. Most of his "friends" don't even know what his voice sounds like.
Etymology: e (electronic) + pathetic (causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you! And yes I can think without a keyboard, it's just that my mind wanders... ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-04-30: 08:13:00
OK...does anyone think it's weird when you think of the definition the day before it appears?
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-05: 01:24:00
Reader you must be a "Verbotopsychic"
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James