texting

noun

text·​ing ˈtek-stiŋ 

: the act or activity of sending text messages from one cell phone to another

When I moved to Chicago, I used a paper map that folded in your lap to navigate the city. There was no Internet, no e-mail, no texting … . A few people in the late eighties had giant cell phones that lived in tiny suitcases, and I saw some in movies.

—Amy Poehler

Texting freed a generation from the strictures and inconvenience (and awkwardness) of phone calls, while allowing people to be more loosely and constantly connected.

—Jenna Wortham

Examples of texting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However fun and effective texting may be, Joshi said that, as Wysa scaled, the team eventually decided a better strategy was moving to a hybrid model with the textual component being complemented by what amounts to FaceTimes or Zoom calls between clinician and client. —Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

In this historically divisive time, there’s agreement on one thing: Political texting is completely out of control. —Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024

Today technological changes—including caller ID, the rise of texting and the proliferation of spam messages—have led very few people to pick up the phone or answer unprompted text messages. —Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024

Campaigns and voting rights advocates won't stop calling and texting. —Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1999, in the meaning defined above