English Explanatory Dictionary

phantom vibration syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not.

Word forms

phantom vibration syndrome

Etymology

First used in a 2003 article entitled "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" published in the New Pittsburgh Courier, written by Robert D. Jones under a pseudonym.

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