Nomophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nomophobia is a noun meaning A fear of or disdain for laws.
Meaning
A fear of or disdain for laws.
More Meanings
- (colloquial) The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.
Example Sentences
Alektorophobia, like metrophobia (the fear of poetry) or the disorder nomophobia (the fear of being out of cell-phone contact), is completely irrational.
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.
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[...].
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nomophobe, nostophobia, nomatophobia, verbophobia, numerophobia, phobophobia.
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