texting back
Answering a message
Texting back is replying to a text message.
The phrase often carries weight beyond its literal meaning—someone who doesn't text back may be signaling disinterest, and the time it takes to text back can feel loaded with meaning in dating contexts: He finally texted back three days later.
To text someone back is simply to respond.
- replyingGiving an answer back
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- messagingSending written digital communications
- typingEntering text via keyboard
- typing indicatorShows someone writing
ping · notification · blue check marks · read receipts · read · delivered · seen · left on read · waiting · bubble · delay · quick · slow · phone · chat · conversation · answer · return
- Textingtyping indicator, typing dots, read receipts, read receipt, delivered
- unwritten rulespersonal space, eye contact, tipping, queue jumping, holding doors
responsiveness
texting backleaving on read
Viewing without replying
ignoring · ghosting · not responding · radio silence · stonewalling
text, texting, texts, texted, textual, texture, textured, textures, texturing