abbreviationitis

Definitions

The excessive use of abbreviations.

humorous, rare, uncountable

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).”

“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.”

“(The New World guys chop off the ically ; maybe this lexie taciturnity led to the younger generation’s rampant abbreviationitis.)”

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