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capitalitis

noun

Etymology

From capital + -itis.

  1. derived from capitulum — “head-like object or structure; chapter”
  2. derived from capitellum — “capital or chapiter of a column”
  3. derived from capital
  4. inherited from capitale
  5. suffixed as capitalitis — “capital + itis”

Definitions

  1. The tendency to use capital letters gratuitously.

    • Some people seem to have "capitalitis": they put capital letters on words randomly, regardless of whether the words are nouns, adjectives, or verbs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for capitalitis. 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