formicatory

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adjective

Of or relating to formication.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveformicatory (comparative more formicatory, superlative most formicatory)

comparative more formicatory · superlative most formicatory

  1. Of or relating to formication.
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    It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow this form.

    1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
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APA

formicatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/formicatory

MLA

“formicatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/formicatory. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “formicatory,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/formicatory.

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