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injelititis

injelititis noun: a notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

Noun

injelititis (uncountable)

  1. A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

Origin of injelititis

Coined in 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson, using -itis to denote a fictional complaint, as in e.g. imaginitis. Parkinson combined the terms incompetence and jealousy into injelitence. The disease that results from this is injelititis.

Questions about injelititis

What does injelititis mean?
Injelititis means a notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.
What part of speech is injelititis?
Injelititis is a noun.

Words near injelititis in the dictionary

  1. injectoral
  2. injectors
  3. injectosome
  4. injectosomes
  5. injects
  6. injelititis
  7. injellied
  8. Injen
  9. Injens
  10. injera
  11. injeras

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