"qwerty syndrome" meaning in English

See qwerty syndrome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Audio: En-au-qwerty syndrome.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the best. Etymology templates: {{m|en|QWERTY}} QWERTY Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} qwerty syndrome
  1. (idiomatic, computing, technology) The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior technologies or practices. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Computing, Technology, Typing keyboards Synonyms: QWERTY phenomenon Related terms: Betamax, opportunity cost
    Sense id: en-qwerty_syndrome-en-name-NnlWE4Ou Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, technology

Download JSON data for qwerty syndrome meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "QWERTY"
      },
      "expansion": "QWERTY",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the best.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "qwerty syndrome",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Technology",
          "orig": "en:Technology",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Typing keyboards",
          "orig": "en:Typing keyboards",
          "parents": [
            "Writing instruments",
            "Stationery",
            "Tools",
            "Writing",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jason Kroll, “Readers' Choice Awards”, in Linux Journal",
          "text": "Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior technologies or practices."
      ],
      "id": "en-qwerty_syndrome-en-name-NnlWE4Ou",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "technology",
          "technology"
        ],
        [
          "entrench",
          "entrench"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, computing, technology) The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior technologies or practices."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Betamax"
        },
        {
          "word": "opportunity cost"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "QWERTY phenomenon"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "technology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-qwerty syndrome.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "qwerty syndrome"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "QWERTY"
      },
      "expansion": "QWERTY",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the best.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "qwerty syndrome",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Betamax"
    },
    {
      "word": "opportunity cost"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "English words containing Q not followed by U",
        "en:Computing",
        "en:Technology",
        "en:Typing keyboards"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jason Kroll, “Readers' Choice Awards”, in Linux Journal",
          "text": "Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior technologies or practices."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "technology",
          "technology"
        ],
        [
          "entrench",
          "entrench"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, computing, technology) The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior technologies or practices."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "technology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-qwerty syndrome.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/En-au-qwerty_syndrome.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "QWERTY phenomenon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "qwerty syndrome"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.