facemail — n. A message delivered through a face to face conversation. Example Citation: Moreover, dot coms unlike bankers do not spend their day engaged in face to face human contact known in their culture as f2f or facemail. Alfred W. Putnam, Jr.,… … New words
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face time — n. Time spent interacting with someone in person, rather than via email or some other electronic link. Example Citation: John and Heather duly dispatched their pictures, both of which showed pleasant, open, plumpish faces. Both liked what they… … New words
face-to-face sales — n. Retail sales in a physical store as opposed to an online store. Example Citation: Day, who projects that his company will hit $3 million in sales this year, expects the Internet component of the business to overtake face to face sales soon. We … New words
fleshmeet — n. A meeting in the flesh, especially one composed of people who usually or only converse online. Example Citation: The Opera Forum is a closely knit group. With 40 or so active participants scattered across at least a dozen states and three… … New words
jail mail — n. A letter to the editor sent by a prison inmate. Example Citations: In prisons across the country, with their artificial pre Internet worlds where magazines are one of the few connections to the outside and handwritten correspondence is the… … New words
meatspace — (MEET.spays) n. The flesh and blood real world; the opposite of cyberspace. Example Citation: Writers, who can go for three or four days at a time without talking to people in meatspace , are particularly attracted to this form of friendship.… … New words
micro-expression — n. A very short facial expression of an intense, concealed emotion. Also: microexpression, micro expression. Example Citations: Ekman s main scientific contribution has been to show how the face is the mind s involuntary messenger. Even when… … New words
real reality — n. Everything that is not virtual reality. Example Citation: Dyson ignores the sinister temptations of virtual reality, including virtual sex, temptations bound to grow as real reality gets ever scarier and more complex. Derek Bickerton, Digital… … New words
conversation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Social talk Nouns 1. conversation, interlocution, intercourse; collocution, colloquy, converse, discussion, talkfest; confabulation; talk, discourse, social intercourse; oral communication, communion,… … English dictionary for students
