electionitis

English

Etymology

From election +‎ -itis.

Noun

electionitis (uncountable)

  1. Anxiety, boredom, or fatigue over elections and political campaigns.
    • 2017 June 2, “General election 2017: Are you suffering from electionitis?”, in BBC‎[1]:
      "But somehow I do wish it would slow down the number of elections because it is getting quite tiring!" People are "a little bit fatigued at electionitis", he said, So, why has this campaign been so lacklustre, especially compared with the Northern Ireland Assembly election in March?
    • 2021 September 12, “Tales from the dump: It’s called electionitus”, in NNSL Media‎[2]:
      I know the doctors are rather busy at the moment, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and all, but I think some researcher somewhere should look into the plague of electionitis that seems to be sweeping across the land.
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