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abbreviationitis

noun

Etymology

From abbreviation + -itis.

  1. derived from ad
  2. derived from abbreviātiō
  3. derived from abréviation
  4. inherited from abbreviacioun
  5. suffixed as abbreviationitis — “abbreviation + itis”

Definitions

  1. 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).
    • 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.
    • (The New World guys chop off the ically ; maybe this lexie taciturnity led to the younger generation’s rampant abbreviationitis.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for abbreviationitis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA