English Explanatory Dictionary

Nobelitis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An overriding or obsessive desire to win a Nobel Prize.
  2. Grandiosity or hubris in a Nobel laureate.
  3. The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.

Word forms

Nobelitis Nobel-itis

Etymology

From Nobel + -itis.

Synonyms

Nobel disease
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