nomophobia
noun
nomophobia is a noun meaning “A fear of or disdain for laws” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-O-M-O-P-H-O-B-I-A, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nomophobia mean?
noun
- 1
A fear of or disdain for laws.
- 2
colloquialThe fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nomophobia?
Nomophobia appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Nomophobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does nomophobia come from?
From nomo- + -phobia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).