Abbreviationitis
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The excessive use of abbreviations. humorous, rare, uncountable
"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)."
Example
More examples"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)."
Etymology
From abbreviation + -itis.
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