tickeritis
Noun
An obsessive interest in the stock market.
Usage- Humorous
- Informal
- Uncountable
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More examples (1)
Tickeritis is quicker and more deadly in its action than that old malady, Consignment Fever, but both are exceedingly painful to the victim as well as his sorrowing friends.
Tickeritis is a malady that causes a man to stand and look at a lot of ever-changing figures over which he cannot hope to have the least control.
Tickeritis is an insidious affliction.
More examples (2)
Tickeritis is the constant desire to make a deal.
Henry Howard Harper in his excellent book The Psychology of Speculation written in 1926 described the constant need to watch the market as ‘tickeritis’.
Word forms
Tickeritis