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Coined in 2009, nomophobia is short for “no mobile phone phobia,” an irrational fear of not having your phone.

We probably didn’t need a study of 495 Portuguese young adults to confirm that “nomophobia” is a real thing - you know, the anxiety that accompanies a missing or dead smart phone.

A somewhat ungainly word came into being a decade ago: nomophobia — short for no mobile phone phobia — meaning a fear of being without one’s phone, or at least without juice or network coverage.

They’ve been so successful that there’s even a term for fear of being without your cell phone, “nomophobia.”

As Cambridge explains, the fact that nomophobia was the chosen word indicates that readers are familiar with it, or at the very least, can relate to it.