English Explanatory Dictionary

injelititis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

injelititis

Etymology

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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