disjunctivitis

English

Etymology

From disjunctive +‎ -itis, by analogy with conjunctivitis.

Noun

disjunctivitis (uncountable)

1. (chiefly humorous) Excessive disjointedness.
   • 1972, Adeniji Adaralegbe, Nigeria Educational Research Council, A philosophy for Nigerian education: proceedings‎^[1], page 92:

     The following are some examples of educational disjunctivitis that have curtailed the supply of teachers and interfered with their appropriate preparation and effective utilization.

   • 2007 October 20, Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb, Graham Oppy, “The Metaphysics of Causal Models”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:

     Secondly, our own integrated analysis, unlike the one suggested above, does not suffer from disjunctivitis.