ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Acronymania

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Acronymania is a noun meaning The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.

Meaning

The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.

Example Sentences

Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acronymitis, acronymy, acronyming, abbreviationitis, macronym, backronymy.

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