TARANTISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tarantism" is a kind of...):

chorea (any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs)

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