Nomophobia

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A fear of or disdain for laws..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fear of or disdain for laws.
2. (colloquial) The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.

Example Sentences

The persons of whom I speak have a terror of the very name and mention of the law. They are the morbid subjects of a kind of nomophobia, being in danger of going into fits at every allusion to it[...].

Seen in this light, his antisemitism appears in its ultimate essence as a nomophobia, a revolt against the divinely sanctioned moral law or, religiously speaking, a revolt against God.

Despite the danger of the narrowing of discipleship to activism of some kind, the end result here is not acquiescence into Enlightenment autonomy. It is not what may be termed 'nomophobia' (neurotic fear of law or command) though much of that is about.

There was a second article saying that people apparently suffered from Nomophobia – the fear of not having your mobile turned on – which in the Professor's opinion simply proved that they needed to get a life.

Alektorophobia, like metrophobia (the fear of poetry) or the disorder nomophobia (the fear of being out of cell-phone contact), is completely irrational.

AT&T, for example, has sought to turn “nomophobia”—a fear of being unable to communicate for lack of a cell phone—into a vehicle for sales; see Geoff Colvin, “Building a Super‐Brand— Superfast: What's the Secret of Survival These Days? Change Quickly, Says AT&T's Marketing Chief, Along with Your Customer," Fortune September 3, 2012, 60-64.

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