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TARANTISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tarantism mean?
• TARANTISM (noun)
The noun TARANTISM has 1 sense:
1. a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider
Familiarity information: TARANTISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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