Wednesday Word: Nomophobia
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1word1dayNomophobia - verb
Words are constantly entering and exiting our collective vocabularies, so for today's post I sought out words that didn't exist until a few years ago. Nomophobia is a fear of being without your mobile phone or that it won't function in some way. The word is simply constructed from no mobile + phobia. The first version was the much clunkier no-mobile-phone phobia used in a 2008 study by the UK Post Office. Since then, nomophobia has been a topic of serious study as our lives--and anxieties--revolve around digital devices.
Words are constantly entering and exiting our collective vocabularies, so for today's post I sought out words that didn't exist until a few years ago. Nomophobia is a fear of being without your mobile phone or that it won't function in some way. The word is simply constructed from no mobile + phobia. The first version was the much clunkier no-mobile-phone phobia used in a 2008 study by the UK Post Office. Since then, nomophobia has been a topic of serious study as our lives--and anxieties--revolve around digital devices.
