disjunctivitis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From disjunctive + -itis, by analogy with conjunctivitis.
Noun
[edit]disjunctivitis (uncountable)
- (chiefly humorous) Excessive disjointedness.
- 1972, Adeniji Adaralegbe, Nigeria Educational Research Council, A philosophy for Nigerian education: proceedings[1], page 92:
- The following are some examples of educational disjunctivitis that have curtailed the supply of teachers and interfered with their appropriate preparation and effective utilization.
- 2007 October 20, Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb, Graham Oppy, “The Metaphysics of Causal Models”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, :
- Secondly, our own integrated analysis, unlike the one suggested above, does not suffer from disjunctivitis.