bureaucratitis

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bureaucrat +‎ -itis

Noun[edit]

bureaucratitis (uncountable)

  1. Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
    • 2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234:
      I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.