nomophobia meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

nomophobia

noun

Etymology From nomo- + -phobia.

A fear of or disdain for laws.

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[...].1857, Ralph Wardlaw, James R. Campbell, Systematic theology, volume 3, page 180:
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.1985, Edward H. Flannery, The anguish of the Jews: twenty-three centuries of antisemitism, →ISBN, page 292:

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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.2002, Stanley E. Porter, Anthony R. Cross, Dimensions of baptism: biblical and theological studies, →ISBN, page 247:

noun

Etymology From a contraction of no mobile + -phobia, possibly a pun on homophobia.

Colloquial The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.

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.2008, Peter Armstrong, Cell-out, page 14:
Alektorophobia, like metrophobia (the fear of poetry) or the disorder nomophobia (the fear of being out of cell-phone contact), is completely irrational.2014, Blythe Woolston, edited by Leah Wilson, Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy, page 115:

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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, 60-64.2014, Luis Suarez-Villa, Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State, footnote, page 260: