| fōmō |
noun
a state of mental or emotional strain caused by the fear of missing out.
• Evolutionary biology - an omnipresent anxiety brought on by our cognitive ability to recognize potential opportunities: The brothers had last-slice fomo as they stared at what was left of pizza.
• (with subject) desire to do something, typically accompanied by unease.
• A form of social anxiety - a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event, often aroused by posts seen on social media websites.
ORIGIN: acronym from FEAR OF MISSING OUT
noun
a state of mental or emotional strain caused by the fear of missing out.
• Evolutionary biology - an omnipresent anxiety brought on by our cognitive ability to recognize potential opportunities: The brothers had last-slice fomo as they stared at what was left of pizza.
• (with subject) desire to do something, typically accompanied by unease.
• A form of social anxiety - a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event, often aroused by posts seen on social media websites.
ORIGIN: acronym from FEAR OF MISSING OUT
by Johnny FOMO September 4, 2013
Billy's fomo grew stronger when all of his friends had tickets to the upcoming show! Against all good reasoning he went to the venue anyways without tickets!
by Gianniboy March 6, 2009
Verb. Used among some ebay sellers as a method to ship coffee mugs. First the mug is wrapped in tissue, then padded in bubblewrap, then boxed and placed inside a USPS padded priority flat rate mailer.
by Ebaysive Poster March 10, 2014
1) A fake homosexual - someone who carries certain affectations or embodies certain personality characteristics and/or behaviors usually associated with male homosexuals.
2) A homosexual male who purposefully enhances his 'image' by adopting behaviors associated with more outrageous 'out' individuals.
2) A homosexual male who purposefully enhances his 'image' by adopting behaviors associated with more outrageous 'out' individuals.
by Roma E June 6, 2006
An actual acronym among the mass of Millennial abbreviations--WTF, OMFG, ad nauseum--mistaken as such.
The word fomo (not to be mistaken with its homophone, Faux-mo) stands for “fuck off; move on.” Its lack of semicolon is comparable to other minor details implied—though not included—in the transference of countless other phrases to acronyms. ex: the word “of” in OPEC.
Created as an addition to the lexicon of netspeak, fomo is ideal for a thread in which some twatrot insists on saying the same thing with slightly different phrasing under the auspices that this time s/he’ll make everyone else “see the light.” A mod or community member who’s had enough might chime in ‘”Dude, we all heard you. Feel free to fomo. Matter of fact, I insist.’
However, the inception of fomo came about in direct response to some Millennials with the attention span of gnats, who—despite the fact they’ve never read an entire book in their lives—still feel the inherent need to exert the time and energy to snark that a 5-paragraph post was tl; dr.
The word fomo (not to be mistaken with its homophone, Faux-mo) stands for “fuck off; move on.” Its lack of semicolon is comparable to other minor details implied—though not included—in the transference of countless other phrases to acronyms. ex: the word “of” in OPEC.
Created as an addition to the lexicon of netspeak, fomo is ideal for a thread in which some twatrot insists on saying the same thing with slightly different phrasing under the auspices that this time s/he’ll make everyone else “see the light.” A mod or community member who’s had enough might chime in ‘”Dude, we all heard you. Feel free to fomo. Matter of fact, I insist.’
However, the inception of fomo came about in direct response to some Millennials with the attention span of gnats, who—despite the fact they’ve never read an entire book in their lives—still feel the inherent need to exert the time and energy to snark that a 5-paragraph post was tl; dr.
(via chat):
‘Fecking shit. I spent all morning writing a blog just to log-in tonight and find four lame-ass comments in response!’
‘dang, maing. 4 cmnts means u affected 4 ppl. imagine how I feel 2 get cero?’
‘Yeah, well imagine how *I* feel when all four say ‘tl;dr’?’
‘worrrrrst. it's like, whyd they feel the need 2 tell u that? bitches need to just fomo—and fast.’
‘Agreed. I don’t have to stop some author in his tracks and go, ‘Hey, I didn’t read your book.’
‘Totez.’
‘O.K. You can speak in English now…”
‘Fecking shit. I spent all morning writing a blog just to log-in tonight and find four lame-ass comments in response!’
‘dang, maing. 4 cmnts means u affected 4 ppl. imagine how I feel 2 get cero?’
‘Yeah, well imagine how *I* feel when all four say ‘tl;dr’?’
‘worrrrrst. it's like, whyd they feel the need 2 tell u that? bitches need to just fomo—and fast.’
‘Agreed. I don’t have to stop some author in his tracks and go, ‘Hey, I didn’t read your book.’
‘Totez.’
‘O.K. You can speak in English now…”
by clintcatalyst July 11, 2008