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TARANTISM
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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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