# FOMO

Pronunciation: say "FOH-moh" US /ˈfoʊmoʊ/, UK /ˈfəʊməʊ/

## Noun

1. Initialism of fear of missing out. — Initialism of fear of missing out.
   - Simple: Initialism of fear of missing out. It names the uneasy feeling that others are having fun without you.
   - _Scrolling through the trip photos triggered a sharp wave of FOMO._
   - _She booked the flight on impulse, driven more by FOMO than by any real wish to travel._

## Verb

2. To experience a fear of missing out, or to act on that fear impulsively, often by rushing into something.
   - Simple: To feel scared of missing out on something fun, and to jump in without thinking.
   - _He tends to FOMO into every group trip, then regrets the cost later._
   - _She FOMOed into the crypto craze and lost most of her savings._

## Origin

A US coinage from 2004 by Patrick James McGinnis, introduced in the same article as FOBO.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fomo (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).