🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

发短信狂

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fā duǎnxìn kuáng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Texist/ˈtɛksɪst/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他是个不折不扣的发短信狂,从不接电话。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who strongly prefers communicating via text messages over telephone calls or face-to-face conversation.

    "As an unabashed texist, she always ignores phone calls and asks people to send a message instead."
  2. 2

    A person who is excessively or constantly engaged in texting.

    "He walked right into a lamppost because he was such an avid texist."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from a blend of the prefix 'text-' (referring to digital text messaging) and the suffix '-ist' (denoting a person who adheres to or is characterized by a specific activity or belief). Emerging in the early 21st century alongside widespread mobile telephony, the term describes someone whose primary or preferred mode of communication is text messaging rather than voice calls.

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