Meanings
- humorousuncountableExcessive disjointedness.
Secondly, our own integrated analysis, unlike the one suggested above, does not suffer from disjunctivitis.
2007 October 20, Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb, Graham Oppy, “The Metaphysics of Causal Models”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI1 more example
The following are some examples of educational disjunctivitis that have curtailed the supply of teachers and interfered with their appropriate preparation and effective utilization.
1972, Adeniji Adaralegbe, Nigeria Educational Research Council, A philosophy for Nigerian education: proceedings, page 92
Origin
From disjunctive + -itis, by analogy with conjunctivitis.
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