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textlationship | Word of the Day
August 24, 2019
textlationship
[tekst-
ley
-sh
uh
n-ship, teks‐]
noun
1.
a relationship or association between people who text each other frequently, but rarely if ever interact with each other in person:
I thought he was interested in me, but we never even went out—it was just a textlationship.
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QUOTES
Harry's cottoning onto a
textlationship
might add meaning to one of his other recent stunts—dashing across the finish line of a Brazilian charity run ... wearing a paper mask of his brother's face. Let the soap opera begin!
-- Bridget Arsenault and Sarah Ball, "Royal Watch: Kate Plays Field Hockey in Colored Denim, Harry and Pippa's Textlationship,"
Vanity Fair
, March 15, 2012
ORIGIN
In English, the consonant cluster -
xtl
- in
textlationship
is awkward and rare.
Textlationship
is a neologism composed of
text
(
message
) and (
re)lationship
. The electronic medium is new, but a relationship, especially a romantic one, carried on at a distance through letters, has a long history. The word
textlationship
entered English in the early 21st century.
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