# Nobelitis

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An overriding or obsessive desire to win a Nobel Prize.
2. Grandiosity or hubris in a Nobel laureate.
3. The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.

## Etymology
From Nobel + -itis.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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