creeping featuritis

creeping featuritis

(jargon)/kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis".Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as itactually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed tothe lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means"condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means"inflammation of".