Abbreviationitis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Abbreviationitis is a noun meaning (rare, humorous) The excessive use of abbreviations.
Meaning
(rare, humorous) The excessive use of abbreviations.
Example Sentences
(The New World guys chop off the ically ; maybe this lexie taciturnity led to the younger generation’s rampant abbreviationitis.)
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.
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).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include acronymitis, acronymania, acronymy, abecedism, breviation, abbrevn.
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