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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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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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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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Virtualitis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vərchoōəlītis
Sentence: Jill has a bad case of virtualitis. Her on-line personality is fascinating. She skydives, surfs professionally, builds her own choppers and is in training for the next X Games. If only any of this was true. Her on-line photo album on has more Photo Shop work than a year*s worth of Playboy covers. When a couple of her friends tried to rally all of her friends from Facebook to help her, they found that many of them were made up too, other iterations of Jill herself.
Etymology: virtual (not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so) + itis (forming names of inflammatory diseases)
Gonline
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: gone/line
Sentence: James realized that he was going to have to wash his own socks because Judy was gonline again.
Etymology: gone (as in not here) + on-line
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COMMENTS:
Very good! Says it without a definition. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-08: 04:38:00
like it - galwaywegian, 2007-05-08: 05:17:00
Why couldn't he wash them anyway. No wonder Judy was always online if she was the designated sock-washer. The grass is always #008000er on the cyber side. - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:46:00
Oh and great word by the way - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:46:00
Ha, great word. Love the comment by Petaj. Made me laugh. - Jeaneai, 2007-05-08: 08:54:00
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Driverational
Created by: peabodymat
Pronunciation: drive irrational
Sentence: He was in his driverational mode, being completely controlling and completely irrational.
Etymology:
Gretful
Created by: Tommy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: the act-> gretful, totally immersed -> gretfully, Addicted, repeatedly going past the point of being fired-> REgretful
Negligital
Created by: apollo
Pronunciation: nehg-LIDG-it-ahl
Sentence: Karen had been negligital all week, and her fish died because of it.
Etymology: Negligent + Digital
Cybermired
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SY-ber-myrd
Sentence: For the last couple years Linda has been absolutely cybermired, deeply immersed in communication on the internet thru Twitter, Facebook, and public forums, as well as being heavily involved in texting on her cellphone.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) and 'Mired' (mire v.tr. To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire)
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