acronymania

English

Etymology

From acronym +‎ -mania.

Pronunciation

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Noun

acronymania (uncountable)

1. The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.
   • 1999, Ashton B. Carter, William James Perry, Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America, page 21:

     In the Pentagon's "acronymania," the plane's official name, the National Emergency Airborne Command Post — NEACP, pronounced "kneecap" — had been changed to NAOP, National Airborne Operations Center.

   • 2002, Richard Stern, What Is What Was, page 196:

     Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania.

Translations

enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms

• German: Abkürzungsfimmel (de) m
• Portuguese: siglomania f