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directoritis en · NOUN

Etymology

From director + -itis.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) The situation where a play or film is spoiled by overdirecting.
    • "Directoritis strikes again!" bemoans Dan Sullivan, who believes that the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […] 1988, Richard H. Palmer, The Critics' Canon: Standards of Theatrical Reviewing in America: