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abbreviationitis

abbreviationitis noun: the excessive use of abbreviations.

Noun

abbreviationitis (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, rare) The excessive use of abbreviations.
    • We are evidently in for a bad patch of abbreviationitis. However, in the matter of chemical mechanisms we do seem to have passed the stage which could be referred to in general as OGIAGAA (one guess is as good as another).1952, Science progress, volume 40, numbers 157-160
    • In the future, if this abbreviationitis continues, all makes of cameras and apparatus will be known by symbols and numbers instead of names. This regimentation will knock all the nonsense out of shopping.1954, British journal of photography, volume 101

Origin of abbreviationitis

From abbreviation + -itis.

Questions about abbreviationitis

What does abbreviationitis mean?
Abbreviationitis means the excessive use of abbreviations.
What part of speech is abbreviationitis?
Abbreviationitis is a noun.

Words near abbreviationitis in the dictionary

  1. abbreviater
  2. abbreviaters
  3. abbreviates
  4. abbreviating
  5. abbreviation
  6. abbreviationitis
  7. abbreviations
  8. abbreviative
  9. abbreviator
  10. abbreviatorily
  11. abbreviators

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