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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(diplomacy, slang) The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims of their home country..
Their relationship with the governments in their region is usually one of warmth and understanding, often described as “clientitis” or “clientism.”
We also learned two new words: “clientitis” and “ambassadoritis”. Clientitis is the disease of those enthralled by a host country that they promote its interests, rather than their own country's.
In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.
Use clientitis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clientitis means (diplomacy, slang) The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims of their home country..
Common synonyms include clientism, localitis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their relationship with the governments in their region is usually one of warmth and understanding, often described as “clientitis” or “clientism.”
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