creeping featuritis

jargon /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creepingfeaturism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis".

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. -ism means

"condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means

"inflammation of".

[Jargon File]

(1997-08-03)