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oneitis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /wʌnˈaɪtɪs/

Etymology

From one + -itis.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) Attraction towards a single potential partner to the exclusion of other possible partners.
    • But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. 2011, Neil Strauss, The Game and Rules of the Game:
    • Oneitis is more likely to attack chicks than dudes for reasons of biological conditioning, habitation, mother-child relationship and other scientific crap. 2008, Zander Martin, The Players: