amphetaminism

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noun

Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounamphetaminism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineBehaviour caused by taking amphetamines.
    1 more example

    Later still, her images became highly stylized, intricate, with obsessed, repetitive motifs, labyrinthine, until they resembled Louis Wain's crystalline cats. Such drawings are also rather characteristic of Tourette's syndrome — the original form, the original thought, lost in a jungle of embellishment — and in the so-called 'speed-art' of amphetaminism.

    1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin

Translations

Portuguese anfetaminismo
  • anfetaminismobehaviour caused by taking amphetamines
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