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amphetaminism en · NOUN

Etymology

From amphetamine + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.
    • 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:

Translations (1)

pt anfetaminismo (behaviour caused by taking amphetamines)