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DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.

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Comathroes

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ko-ma-THROWS

Sentence: When Roxie went into spazombic hyper-attentive focusing whilst creating a verboticism, Bob was worried that her condition might turn into svitustrance. Friends thought that she might be marcelvish. But, as her comathroes continued unabated, all agreed that some sort of cerebrawl was going on in her mind.

Etymology: Coma: profound insensibilty, stupor & throes:spasm, convulsion.(with the "math" needed for hyper-attentive focusing.) Svitustrance- pun on St Vitus Dance. Marcelvish: uniname that combines elements of Marcel(Marceau) & Elvis.

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so many good words!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:59:00

Great sentence and etymology! Really unique word! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 21:04:00

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Autogamenchorea

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: au-to-gam-en-KOR-ee-ah

Sentence: Mike's autogamenchorea prevented him from hearing the timer on the pot stickers that were cooking on the stove and soon the apartment was filled with smoke.

Etymology: auto-(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within. Used as in autism). gamen (Old English: root of Game) -chorea (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder)

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Pacmannerism

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pack-MANner-ism

Sentence: Colby's pacmannerism had worsened considerably since the 1980s. It had evolved into captaincomicalysis, but it seemed he always had a frogger in his throat.

Etymology: Pacman + mannerism

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I'm old enough to remember Pacman but I had to look up what Wii was! lol - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:53:00

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Focolation

Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: fo-ko-LAY-shun

Sentence: Ivan spent the morning in a state of extreme focolation, attempting to finish the new Zelda game before any of his friends.

Etymology: Focus + isolation

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Vautism

Created by: duluth

Pronunciation: voh-tism

Sentence: Vautism is a brain development disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior, occurring at any age and often induced by environmental interactions with computer-based games.

Etymology: The term is a derivation of autism with the "v" at the beginning signifying the video game interaction factor.

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Wiitardation

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: wee-tar-day-shun

Sentence: His video game addiction started off slowly with a mild case of nintendonitis, progressed to acute halotosis (hay-low-toe-sis), and ended in complete wiitardation.

Etymology: wii + retardation

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that's a winner - FreeToys, 2007-09-13: 13:20:00

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