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FOMOing

FOMOing 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 FOMOing

What is FOMOing the present participle and gerund of?
FOMOing is the present participle and gerund of FOMO.

Words near FOMOing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FOMOing (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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