Citations:ringxiety

Noun: "the phenomenon of mistakenly checking one's cell phone/mobile/handphone in the belief that one is receiving a call"

 * 2006 — Bobbie Johnson, "Do you suffer from Ringxiety?", The Guardian, 1 June 2006:
 * Many of us will be familiar with the basest form of ringxiety - when one phone rings and everyone in the vicinity suddenly starts checking their pockets or handbags with frantic abandon.
 * 2008 — "Do you have ringxiety?", Prevention, January 2008:
 * 67% of US adults say they've heard their cell phone ring or felt it vibrate when it actually hadn't — a phenomenon experts are now calling "ringxiety."
 * 2011 — Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books (2011), ISBN 9780345491190, page 71:
 * I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.
 * "Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."