Citations:ringxiety

English citations of ringxiety

Noun: "the phenomenon of mistakenly checking one's cell phone/mobile/handphone in the belief that one is receiving a call"

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• 2006 — Bobbie Johnson, "Do you suffer from Ringxiety?", The Guardian, 1 June 2006:

  Many of us will be familiar with the basest form of ringxiety - when one phone rings and everyone in the vicinity suddenly starts checking their pockets or handbags with frantic abandon.

• 2008 — "Do you have ringxiety?", Prevention, January 2008:

  67% of US adults say they've heard their cell phone ring or felt it vibrate when it actually hadn't — a phenomenon experts are now calling "ringxiety."

• 2011 — Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books (2011), →ISBN, page 71:

  I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.

  "Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."