incarceritis
- noun
- /ɪnˈkɑrsəˌraɪtɪs/
- Slang
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incarceritis
- After months of lockdown, many experienced incarceritis.
Examples
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The children had a severe case of incarceritis after three days stuck indoors during the storm.
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Too much time in the office gave him a bout of incarceritis.
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After a week of quarantine, I started showing signs of incarceritis.
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He felt a sense of incarceritis after being home for weeks.
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After a week of quarantine, I started showing signs of incarceritis.
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The children had a severe case of incarceritis after three days stuck indoors during the storm.
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After months of lockdown, many experienced incarceritis.
Synonyms
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3.8
Unable to sit still and relax because of worry, boredom or impatience
A funny phrase for feeling stuck and bored in a long meeting or at home
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slang
A funny phrase for feeling stuck and bored in a long meeting or at home
How Restless
Surface Forms
Morphology
incarceritis = incarceration + incarcerate (semi-transparent) = incarcer + itis
The formation is a humorous medicalization ('-itis' meaning a condition) formed on 'incarcerate/incarceration' and is understandable to those who know the base and the figurative '-itis' usage, but not fully transparent to learners unfamiliar with that suffix.
Etymology
Incarceritis comes from incarcerate 'to put in prison' and the ending -itis 'a sickness', like in arthritis. So it is a playful name for the 'sickness' of feeling restless or irritable after being stuck inside for a long time.