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Nomophobia affects majority of UK

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Re: Nomophobia affects majority of UK

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"Nomophobia"? Who invents these words? How about lexiphobia, the fear of not having an erudite-sounding but meaningless polysyllable on the tip of one's tongue at the perfect moment?

The British Post Office invented it to advertise something or other. I assume it was a joke based on no-mobile-pho(ne|bia).

Also, wiktionary tells me nomophobia already means fear of laws.