Nintendinitis

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Nintendinitis

/nɪnˌtɛndɪˈnaɪtɪs/ UK
/nɪnˌtɛndəˈnaɪtɪs/ US
[-ɾɪs] US

Rhymes with -aɪtɪs

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Blend of Nintendo (“Japanese video-game company”) + tendinitis (“inflammation of a tendon”), possibly coined by Richard Brasington in a 1990 letter to the editor of the The New England Journal of Medicine: see the quotation.

noun Nintendonitis

humorous, informal, uncountable A form of repetitive strain injury, which may include tendinitis, affecting the thumbs or other fingers of frequent video gamers, often from the excessive use of the d-pad on a game controller. I wish to report a sports injury attributable to the excessive playing of video games. A 35-year-old woman visited my home during the Christmas holidays, at which time my sons received a Nintendo video game. The woman, who had not previously engaged in this recreational activity, pursued it with ent
Similar: gamer's thumb, Nintendo thumb

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noun form of repetitive strain injury affecting the thumbs or other fingers of frequent video gamers

Français	nintendinite, nintendonite

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@misc{nintendinitis_2026,
  title = {Nintendinitis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nintendinitis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}