Capitalitis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The tendency to use capital letters gratuitously. uncountable

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

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

Etymology

From capital + -itis.

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capital letter

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