More widespread (and something I suffer from myself) is phantom vibration syndrome, in which people feel their phone vibrating when it isn't.

Another sign of an unhealthy attachment to mobile devices is the so-called phantom vibration syndrome.

"Phantom vibration syndrome" is the Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year.

In 2012, the term phantom vibration syndrome was chosen as the Australian Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year.

Phantom vibration syndrome, or PVS for short, received the honour ahead of a host of other new technology-based terms.

Phantom vibration syndrome or phantom ringing is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing, when in fact the telephone is not doing so.

Phantom vibration syndrome is the term I use to describe our habit of scrambling for a cellphone we feel rippling in our pocket, only to find out we are mistaken.

Earlier this year, the Macquarie Dictionary included 'Phantom vibration syndrome' in its online edition - describing anxiety and an obsessional conviction that one's mobile phone has vibrated in response to an incoming call.

The earliest published use of the term phantom vibration syndrome dates to 2003 in an article entitled "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" published in the New Pittsburgh Courier, written under a pen name of columnist Robert D. Jones.