1. creeping featuritis /kreeping 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 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]
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