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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>creeping featuritis</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="creeping-featurism.html" title="creeping featurism"/><link rel="next" href="cretin.html" title="cretin"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">creeping featuritis</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="creeping-featurism.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cretin.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="creeping-featuritis"/><dt xmlns="" id="creeping-featuritis"><b>creeping featuritis</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kree´ping fee'·chr·i:`t@s/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>Variant of <a href="creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featurism</i></a>, with its own
spoonerization: <span class="firstterm">feeping creaturitis</span>.
Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually
manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general
tendency in designers' minds. (After all, -ism means
&#8216;condition&#8217; or &#8216;pursuit of&#8217;, whereas -itis usually
means &#8216;inflammation of&#8217;.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="creeping-featurism.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cretin.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">creeping featurism </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cretin</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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