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injelititis.

A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

11 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

Coined in 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson, using -itis to denote a fictional complaint, as in e.g. imaginitis. Parkinson combined the terms incompetence and jealousy into injelitence. The disease that results from this is injelititis.

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