parakeetitis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The excessive admiration of, and tendency to be easily distracted by, the visually appealing components of a board game (especially a Eurogame).
Humorous; Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But $20 games are hard pressed. It's expensive enough to make me think twice, not pretty enough to give me a case of parakeetitis and make me want to impulse buy. (Expensive games do get impulse bought if I trust the company or really like the theme)."
- "These components are much harder to duplicate, and so your homebrew answer is unrealistic unless you're willing to spend lots of time cutting cards and painting little wooden blocks […]. This discussion then basically boils down to whether or not you suffer from incurable parakeetitis, which I do. I need to see all the shiny little parts, or something's missing..."
- "Carcassonne is definitely more complex than I thought the first time I played it. I bought it on an attack of parakeetitis (mmm... pretty pieces), and thought after the first playing that the whole game was winning farms."