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acronymania

noun

Etymology

From acronym + -mania.

  1. derived from ἄκρον
  2. borrowed from Akronym
  3. suffixed as acronymania — “acronym + mania”

Definitions

  1. The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.

    • In the Pentagon's "acronymania," the plane's official name, the National Emergency Airborne Command Post — NEACP, pronounced "kneecap" — had been changed to NAOP, National Airborne Operations Center.
    • Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acronymania. 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