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acronymania en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From acronym + -mania.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.
    • 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. 1999, Ashton B. Carter, William James Perry, Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America, page 21:
    • Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania. 2002, Richard Stern, What Is What Was, page 196:

Translations (3)

ko 두문자어증 (enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms) · pt siglomania (enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms) · de Abkürzungsfimmel (enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms)