Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Is there a name for the fear or phobia of being away from / not being able to reach the internet?
asked Dec 7, 2011 at 18:46
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I propose "nonephobia".– Terry LiCommented Dec 7, 2011 at 19:13
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Nomophobia only exists as a word because; a.) young people (who love coining neologisms) do often suffer from it, and b.) it's a witty contraction of "no mobile phone". Since the current crop of mobiles are often Internet-connected, OP could probably just use the word anyway.– FumbleFingersCommented Dec 7, 2011 at 19:17
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2Forget about the internet: is there a word for the fear of not having access to StackExchange?– DanielCommented Dec 7, 2011 at 20:00
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@Danielδ I know I suffer from noELUphobia.– GnawmeCommented Dec 7, 2011 at 20:11
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There isn't a word for precisely this fear (yet), but if you want a fancy-sounding neologism, here is fear of away from Internet in transliterated Greek: macriapodiadictuophobia.
If you apply the same technique in Latin, the result would be abinterretemetus.
(In case you're wondering about good ole English, it turns out that it's much more ghastly: awayfrominternetfear.)
However, if you could use words that connote more of an addiction to the internet, then the answers to this question may suffice: cybernaut, nethead, and netizen. Most macriapodiadictuophobes are netheads, and vice versa.
Fear of the internet would be interretephobia, so perhaps fear of being away from it would be abinterretephobia.
answered Dec 7, 2011 at 19:25
Well, the word is 'discomgoogolation.'
Check Collins Dictionary:
Discomgoogolation: a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
Note that the word is informal.
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Never heard this before – fancy way of saying FOMO! Commented Apr 19, 2019 at 10:12