A deliberate once-a-week unplugging — no phone, no laptop, no streaming.
A deliberate once-a-week unplugging — no phone, no laptop, no streaming. The religious weekly rest, updated for 2025. Sundays are standard; reports of restlessness in hour two are universal; the pay-off usually lands around hour four.
"Sundays are digital sabbath now. Read, walk, no screens."
A digital sabbath is a regular tech-free day, often weekly. Borrows from the religious sabbath. Not concerning, often a healthy practice. Worth discussing as a family habit. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
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A voluntary break from the use of computer technology, electronic devices and the Internet, intended to benefit people who spend an excessive amount of time using such technology.
Intentionally avoiding digital devices — phones, laptops, social media — for a set period to reset focus and mental health. Weekend digital detoxes are forgiving; week-long ones uncover how much of your identity was tied up in the scroll. Half the genre is the comeback post.
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
To spend the weekend.
A digital sabbath is a regular tech-free day, often weekly. Borrows from the religious sabbath. Not concerning, often a healthy practice. Worth discussing as a family habit. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Digital sabbath is informal wellness vocabulary describing a regular, often weekly, day without digital devices. Use in wellness and lifestyle writing. Formal equivalent: "a recurring screen-free day." Common non-native mistake: confusing with one-off digital detox. Digital sabbath specifically implies a recurring, often spiritual or family-centred practice. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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