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FORMICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does formication mean?
• FORMICATION (noun)
The noun FORMICATION has 1 sense:
1. hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines
Familiarity information: FORMICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("formication" is a kind of...):
paraesthesia; paresthesia (abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage)
Derivation:
formicate (crawl about like ants)
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