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nomophobia

nomophobia noun: a fear of or disdain for laws.

Noun (1)

nomophobia (uncountable)

  1. 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

Noun (2)

nomophobia (uncountable)

  1. (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

nomophobia meaning in Tamil

nomophobia in Tamil

அலை பேசி வெருளி, அலைபேசி அடிமை, கைப்பேசியின்மையச்சம்

Origin of nomophobia

From nomo- + -phobia.

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

Questions about nomophobia

What does nomophobia mean?
Nomophobia means a fear of or disdain for laws.
What is nomophobia in Tamil?
Nomophobia in Tamil is அலை பேசி வெருளி, அலைபேசி அடிமை, கைப்பேசியின்மையச்சம். See Nomophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nomophobia?
Nomophobia is a noun.

Words near nomophobia in the dictionary

  1. nomologists
  2. nomology
  3. nomopelmous
  4. nomophobe
  5. nomophobes
  6. nomophobia
  7. nomophobic
  8. nomophylactic
  9. nomophylakes
  10. nomophylax
  11. nomos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nomophobia (page history and authors); nomophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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