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FOMO-ing

FOMO-ing is the present participle and gerund of FOMO.

Meaning of FOMO

Verb

FOMO (third-person singular simple present FOMOs, present participle FOMOing or FOMO-ing, simple past and past participle FOMOed or FOMO'd)

  1. (intransitive) To experience FOMO (“the fear of missing out”); to act on one's FOMO, often impulsively [(often) with into].
    • Within hours of selling out, AfroDroids NFTs started getting flipped on OpenSea for thousands of dollars, with new investors FOMO-ing into the project in case it became the newest PFP project to go to the moon.2024 August, Andrew R. Chow, “Total Rug” (chapter 15), in Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of FTX's Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 113

Questions about FOMO-ing

What is FOMO-ing the present participle and gerund of?
FOMO-ing is the present participle and gerund of FOMO.

Words near FOMO-ing in the dictionary

  1. fomite
  2. fomites
  3. fomivirsen
  4. FOMO
  5. FOMO'd
  6. FOMO-ing
  7. FOMOed
  8. FOMOing
  9. Fomor
  10. Fomorian
  11. Fomorians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FOMO-ing (page history and authors); FOMO (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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