DEFINITION: n. Obsessive-compulsive rechecking or "refreshing" of an item (especially a webpage) to see if its status has changed; often leads to repetitive mouse-clicking disorder.v. To constantly recheck or refresh your twitter page, or email account.

Clickymouseania

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Clik-ee-mous-ay-nia

Sentence: Jo unfortunately sufferered from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which led to her constantly checking and rechecking things. Last month it was seeing if the gas cooker had been left on, this month she had developed clickymouseania with the button on her laptop, she felt compelled to refresh every page she went to just to check the status. She spent so much time doing this that she hardly looked at any of the webpages she was on.

Etymology: Click (an act of pressing one of the buttons on a computer mouse) + Mouse (a small hand held device which controls cursor movements on a computer screen) + Mania (Mental illness marked by periods of overactivity, an obsession) = Clickymouseania

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