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telephonitis joc.|ˌtɛlɪfəʊˈnaɪtɪs|
[f. telephone n. or v. + -itis.]
A compulsive desire to make telephone calls.
1935Even. Sun (Baltimore) 24 Apr. 4/6 Garrison was suffering from ‘telephonitis’. She [sc. his wife] has an injunction forbidding him from calling her on the telephone and..Garrison had violated the order because he ‘couldn't help it’. 1962Punch 3 Jan. 71 One of the tragedies of telephonitis is that sufferers are unable to help one another. 1979Washington Post 14 Dec. b3/5 Ted [sc. Edward Kennedy] has telephonitis and he's on the phone every night. |