Meaning of nomophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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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