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facemails

facemails is the plural of facemail.

Meaning of facemail

Noun (1)

facemail (plural facemails)

  1. Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.
    • It's been said that some high-tech experts think so little of actual conversation that they call it “facemail,” in their minds an inefficient and inferior form of communication.2001, Andrew Finlayson, Questions that work

Noun (2)

facemail (countable and uncountable, plural facemails)

  1. (Internet) An email message sent via Facebook.
    • Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...2009, Pamella Gray, Life of My Dreams

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Questions about facemails

What is facemails the plural of?
Facemails is the plural of facemail.

Words near facemails in the dictionary

  1. facelock
  2. facelocks
  3. facemail
  4. facemailed
  5. facemailing
  6. facemails
  7. facemaking
  8. faceman
  9. facemask
  10. facemasks
  11. facemen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facemails (page history and authors); facemail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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