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'.)
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {banana problem}{software bloat}]