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Paul Carpenter, Writer at 3D Systems

Answered May 26

Adronitis is an invented word whose created definition is “frustration with how long it
takes to get to know someone.”

As a connoisseur of words, I applaud the desire to name that particular nameless

emotion, but I disapprove of the construction. It generally gives a wrong impression that
it is a medical term, and it specifically misuses the medical suffix -itis, which denotes an
inflammation. If there were a need for a term indicating “inflammation of the
bulkiness”, adronitis would be it.

Compare the clumsiness of this invention with the word nostalgia, from the Greek
roots nost- (“returnin...

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Michael Anderson, Distance Learning Coordinator at Austin Community College (2015-

present)
Answered Jun 16

According to the Urban Dictionary:

frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone—spending the first few weeks
chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a
different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house—wishing instead that you
could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before
easing into casualness, until you’ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them
where they’re from, and what they do for a living.

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