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amputeeism en · NOUN

Etymology

From amputee + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being an amputee.
    • Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification. 2008, Belinda Bennett, Terry Carney, Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78: