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noctophobia 

The intense change of emotions that occurs when the sun sets. Often non-frightening things turn very scary when night approaches and you are laying in the bed. Symptoms include: imagining the broom in the corner is a serial killer coming to murder you, carrying around a baseball bat just to go to the toilet, and burying yourself beneath mountains of blankets so the horrors of the night do not get you.
Oh my word! When my phone vibrated on my dresser last night, I was so freaked that I bashed it in with my fist.

Wowzers, dude. You must have had a serious case of noctophobia.
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Nomophobia 

No-mo-pho-bia (\,nô-mə-`fô-bç-ə\) noun : an exaggerated, inexplicable, and illogical fear being without a mobile device, power source, or service area.

Origin: Dubbed by British experts who claim that state that fifty-three percent of mobile users, with forty-eight percent women and 58 percent of men questioned in their study admitted to experience feelings of anxiety when they run out of a battery or credit, lose their phone, or have no network coverage.
Urban Dictionary usage: “My phone don’t work no mo. I think I have nomophobia”
Nomophobia by Craig St. John March 31, 2008

Nomophobia 

The fear of being out of mobile phone contact, hence NO MObile phone contact
Guy 1: Want to go camping in the canyon?
Guy 2: No, I have nomophobia
Nomophobia by dragonson04 June 25, 2010

nomophobia 

Fear of being away from a mobile phone.
That guy has serious nomophobia.
nomophobia by S. Dawg March 31, 2008
Word of the Day on July 30, 2015

Nomaphobia 

The fear of eating in front of people. Usually in front of someone who intimidates you.
I have severe nomaphobia, I couldn't even eat in front of my teacher.
Nomaphobia by scaredtoeat97 November 21, 2011

Nomophobia 

Short for no-mobile-phone phobia, this is the constant fear of not having service and according to researchers in the UK a whopping 50% of people have it. Third world…we apologize.
-"i LITERALLY cant survive without my phone i have Nomophobia the fear of no service or phones!"
Nomophobia by LightningThunda November 3, 2014