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

Like a cell tower in space, Direct to Cell will allow access to texting, calling, and browsing in traditionally remote areas. —Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024

But there’s much more to it than that, even if the conduct on trial dealt with texting specifically. —Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024

And Apple’s next generation of software is expected to be packed with an array of AI features likely to make its often-bumbling virtual assistant Siri smarter, and make photos, music, texting — and possibly even creating emojis on the fly — a more productive and entertaining experience. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 10 June 2024

As everyone gets the boat ready, Barbie calls a friend to brag about how much she’s been working, but this is intercut — and thus undercut — with her texting while Paris and Xandi clean. —Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1999, in the meaning defined above