/men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software wITh an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irrITating and much prefer the flexibilITy of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, {for the rest of us}. [Jargon File] (1994-12-02)