Pronounced: high-per-hih-DROH-sis, noun
Notes: I didn’t know that a word for this existed
Yesterday’s word
The word unitasking means “doing one thing at a time”
First usage
This word showed up in the 1980s
Background / Comments
You may have guessed this word due to the similarity to “multitasking”; our word was patterned after “multitaking”, which is the older word (came into usage in the 1960s), with “multi” (many) replace with “uni” (one).
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