Definition: creeping featuritis

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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

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 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]

   (1997-08-03)

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 

creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n. Variant of creeping
   featurism, with its own spoonerization: `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. (After all, -ism means `condition' or
   `pursuit of', whereas -itis usually means `inflammation of'.)