acronymophilia

acronymophilia

English

Etymology

acronym +‎ -o- +‎ -philia.

Noun

acronymophilia (uncountable)

1. (chiefly medicine) The abnormal liking or tendency for the use of acronyms.
   • 1995, The Practitioner

     While London's black cabs were proclaiming that 1994 was the year of the taxi, GPs in Britain could be forgiven for thinking it was actually the year of rampant acronymophilia. Acronyms, pronounceable words formed from the initial letters of other words, have multiplied on all sides, but particularly in the literature of cardiovascular medicine.

   • 2007, D Bryce-Smith, Photochemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (→ISBN)

     Acronymophilia seems to be afflicting some of our more physical colleagues.

   • 2017, Wayne Harris, Examination Paediatrics, Elsevier Health Sciences (→ISBN), page 49:

     Acronymophilia has been, and continues to be, rampant in scales and interviews concerned with ADHD.

See also

• TLA
• RAS syndrome