A tendency for some engineers to believe that they can solve complex problems in unrelated fields (economics, philosophy, etc) by applying typical engineering strategies (mathematical modeling, etc) despite lacking domain knowledge in the field.
"The volatility of financial markets can be minimized by using control theory to model the market as a second-order system."
"That's just your engineer's syndrome talking."
"That's just your engineer's syndrome talking."
by Honkwicher April 05, 2021
A mental delusion that inflicts only men into believing they will experience Spontaneous Castration at the sight of a powerful woman.
"Aaron's got that Furiosa Syndrome, he thinks his dick will fall off if he goes to see the new MadMax movie"
by Gavriel.Discordia June 25, 2015
Derived from the Latin word saur- meaning red and -on meaning eyes. Most commonly diagnosed in immortal beings in their menacing tower phase of life, this affliction ones eyes to become extremely red.
Hey, Frodo, what's up with Sauron today?
-Oh man, he's suffering from an affliction of the most curious and serendipitous sorts.
By golly Frodo! You don't think...
-Yes me boy, it seems he has a a case of sauron syndrome!
OH SNAP!
-Oh man, he's suffering from an affliction of the most curious and serendipitous sorts.
By golly Frodo! You don't think...
-Yes me boy, it seems he has a a case of sauron syndrome!
OH SNAP!
by Bilbo Bag-JESUS A LION GET IN July 21, 2009
A disease of celebrities wherein they rise to notoriety with a particular role, and it threatens to typecast and destroy their career forever. Named for William Shatner, whose love-hate relationship with his Star Trek character James T. Kirk, both originated and imprisoned, extended and hounded much of his professional career.
In rare cases, such as with William Shatner himself, the disease mutates and gives the victim the ability to rise above and become a teflon parody/iconic legend of themself.
In rare cases, such as with William Shatner himself, the disease mutates and gives the victim the ability to rise above and become a teflon parody/iconic legend of themself.
Examples of Shatner Syndrome are almost every principal actor from every Star Trek series, Jim Nabors, Pee-wee Hermann, Hulk Hogan and the entire cast of Seinfeld, aside from Jerry Seinfeld.
by Grafikman December 20, 2010
by Dasborg June 07, 2011
Also known as pulling an Annie Wilkes. When a website or forum obsessess over one person to the point of being borderline creepy and almost psychotic, going to such lengths as screencapping everything that person does if it doesn't involve them, posting overly long forum threads about said user, trying to coax said user into joining the website or forum they're apart of and just going out of their way to make sure said person is associated with said site or forum forever.
by MM132 December 23, 2015
CLR Syndrome is a term used to describe people who type using excess characters, inproper case, and abbreviated words in online chat rooms, online bulletin board systems, and e-mails. The term was originally coined after the tendancies of a netizen who goes by the nickname 'CLR' in online chat rooms who exhibits the said behaviors in nearly all of his messages. The actual originator of the term is disputed, however it is said to have been coined by 'Jonneh' or 'Brynet-Inc'. Still, from the moment 'CLR Syndrom' was muttered it has stuck. CLR Syndrom could also be described as an intensified case of 'l33tsp3ak', 'netspeak', or 'AOL speak'.
Sentence typed by a person free of CLR Syndrome:
Hi, my name is Q. What is your name? I'm excited to be here. What's up?
Sentence typed by a person infected with CLR Syndrome:
HI MY nAME IZ Q. WAT UR NAME??????/// I M XCITED 2 B HERE!!!!!!!1 WAT UP????
Hi, my name is Q. What is your name? I'm excited to be here. What's up?
Sentence typed by a person infected with CLR Syndrome:
HI MY nAME IZ Q. WAT UR NAME??????/// I M XCITED 2 B HERE!!!!!!!1 WAT UP????
by The Chipper August 01, 2006