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Etymology

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From bureaucrat +‎ -itis.

Noun

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bureaucratitis (uncountable)

  1. Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
    • 2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234:
      I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.