bureaucratitis

English

Etymology

From bureaucrat +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bureaucratitis (uncountable)

1. Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
   • 2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234:

     I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.