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imaginitis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English imagine Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor. New Latin -itisder. English -itis English imaginitis From imagine + -itis.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, uncountable) A notional disease characterised by a hyperactive imagination.
    • Other dislodged stones, however, convinced us the boys had not suffered from imaginitis[…] 1937, Michael Terry, Sand and Sun:
    • "Just a case of galloping imaginitis! Would you suggest with this nonsense that we go back to peeling potatoes and cooking them over a coal stove?" 1961, Margaret Elizabeth Mulac, Leisure: Time for Living and Retirement:
    • [T]wo of them look as healthy as mountain sheep, so they are suffering only from imaginitis but the third has trouble lowering herself down the steps so either she has very bad phlebitis or her womb is fallen. 2004, Jerome Kiely, Heat Not a Furnace, page 40: