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disjunctivitis

disjunctivitis noun: excessive disjointedness.

Noun

disjunctivitis (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Excessive disjointedness.
    • The following are some examples of educational disjunctivitis that have curtailed the supply of teachers and interfered with their appropriate preparation and effective utilization.1972, Adeniji Adaralegbe, Nigeria Educational Research Council, A philosophy for Nigerian education: proceedings, page 92
    • Secondly, our own integrated analysis, unlike the one suggested above, does not suffer from disjunctivitis.2007 October 20, Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb, Graham Oppy, “The Metaphysics of Causal Models”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI

Origin of disjunctivitis

From disjunctive + -itis, by analogy with conjunctivitis.

Questions about disjunctivitis

What does disjunctivitis mean?
Disjunctivitis means excessive disjointedness.
What part of speech is disjunctivitis?
Disjunctivitis is a noun.

Words near disjunctivitis in the dictionary

  1. disjunctiveness
  2. disjunctives
  3. disjunctivism
  4. disjunctivist
  5. disjunctivists
  6. disjunctivitis
  7. disjunctivity
  8. disjunctly
  9. disjunctness
  10. disjunctor
  11. disjunctors

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