injelititis

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noun

A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

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Meanings

nouninjelititis (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

Origin

Coined in 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson, using -itis to denote a fictional complaint, as in e.g. imaginitis. Parkinson combined the terms incompetence and jealousy into injelitence. The disease that results from this is injelititis.

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APA

injelititis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/injelititis

MLA

“injelititis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/injelititis. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “injelititis,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/injelititis.

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