The expression nomophobia first appeared in 2008 in the United Kingdom (no-mobile-phobia) and indicates fear or feeling anxious about either losing your mobile phone or staying without access to a mobile network or losing phone numbers or having an empty battery, in short, not being available on your phone.
no-mobile-phobia), ki označuje strah oz. občutek tesnobe pred tem, da bi bodisi ostali brez mobilnega telefona ali brez dostopa do mobilnega omrežja bodisi izgubili telefonske številke ali imeli prazno baterijo, skratka strah pred tem, da bi ostali nedosegljivi po telefonu.