FaceTime

See also: facetime

English

Alternative forms

• facetime

Etymology

Compare face time (“time spent in visual communication with another party”).

Proper noun

FaceTime

1. A videotelephony software developed by Apple Inc., introduced in 2010.
   • 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.

Verb

FaceTime (third-person singular simple present FaceTimes, present participle FaceTiming or FaceTime-ing or FaceTime'ing, simple past and past participle FaceTimed or FaceTime'd)

1. To communicate with somebody using the FaceTime videotelephony software.
   • 2014, Jean Hovey, Stephanie Jones, Tidings of Love: 7 Holiday Romance Novellas, Crimson Romance, →ISBN:

     I gritted through a smile, grateful we weren’t Skyping or FaceTime-ing or any other electronic face messaging that was available. It was bad enough he had to hear me stumble through our phone call. I didn’t need him to see my embarrassment as well.

   • 2018 April 27, Sarah Perez, “Facebook’s Messenger Kids’ app gains a ‘sleep mode’”, in TechCrunch‎^[2]:

     Our children are FaceTime’ing their way through Roblox playdates, they’re texting grandma and grandpa, they’re watching YouTube instead of TV, and they’re begging for too-adult apps like Snapchat – so they can play with the face filters – and Musical.ly, which has a lot of inappropriate content.

   • 2019 October 13, Grant Ramey, “Hoops Q&A: Getting to know new Vols big man Uros Plavsic”, in 247Sports‎^[3]:

     ON WHAT HE [Uros Plavsic] MISSES ABOUT SERBIA “Obviously my family. Food, my friends. But technology today works so good for me. Like, FaceTime’ing everybody every makes it amazing."

   • 2020 April 10, Joan Aguon Charfauros, “Guam native's YouTube video rallies peers to donate school funds to help those in need”, in KUAM‎^[4]:

     "One night I was FaceTime'ing my girlfriend Jamie, and she told me that her school senior prom might be canceled. […]," he [Josiah “JT” Duenas] recalled.

   • 2020 July 15, Mike Lauterborn, Pandemonium, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     As for relating to each other, we’d texted and FaceTime’d each other throughout the day every day, providing emotional support, sharing memes and links to articles, and minimizing our sense of detachment and isolation.

   • 2021 January 4, Love Belvin, Our Reckless Hope, MKT Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

     As I gazed into my father’s eyes, willing the right words, Lidia stepped out onto the balcony, handing me an iPad where Renata was FaceTime’ing.

   • 2021 June 16, Mary J. Schalla, “The Day I Left”, in Escaping My Predator, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 55:

     I was careful when FaceTime’ing with my son to not show a background where he could see anything outside my home; I stayed away from the windows and doors.

   • 2022 March 8, Jill Gutowitz, “A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning”, in Girls Can Kiss Now, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 91–92:

     While she was away, we’d FaceTimed every day. Once, she’d FaceTimed me from the bathtub, a setting that felt so intimate to me, and my inner monologue was shrieking, “Act normal, act normal!”

2. To communicate with somebody using any form of video telephony software.

Hypernyms

• vidcall
• vidchat