Additction

Additction: noun. An addiction to addition. This is a very common ailment that befalls mathematicians, both professional and amateur practicians of mathematics. Common symptoms consist of an obsessive need to add together things which are completely unrelated and where the result is of absolutely no use whatsoever. An example of this is for example adding up the number of ducks in a pond along with the number of blades of grass next to the pond. There is a famous case from the British Isles where the Professor of Mathematics of Birmingham University died of additction while attempting to add the number of leaves on a tree together with the number of hairs on a death-metal fan's head.